Set of three large vases
Gundersheimer expert report p.34, no.88: Vase, blue-white, flute-like, with a very long neck widened into a ring in the centre. Painted with chrysanthemums and dragons. Symbolic utensils. Upper rim curved outwards. Covered with feathery leaves. At the bottom: N: 49 (1060 red). Height: 72cm; Gundersheimer Expertise p.35, no.89: Vase, tall, blue-white, like Gundersheimer Expertise p.34, no.88. At the base: N:49 burn marks on the neck. Fire crack on the foot rim. Label: 357A. Height: 70.5cm; Gundersheimer Expertise p.35, no.90: Vase, tall, blue-white, like Gundersheimer Expertise p.34, no.88. On the base: N:49 burn mark on neck. Fire crack on the foot rim. Label: 357B. Height: 72cm;
Helbing: Slender baluster shape, the neck with belt bulge. Painted in underglaze blue with lotus vine motifs, in between small dragons and a vase reserve with ‘Delicious Things’. Similar motifs on the neck, finished with a leaf frieze. (b and c neck repaired.) All three with Johanneum's no. 49
1721 Collection Augustus II the Strong; 07-08.10.1919 Auction of porcelain and weapons from the Royal Saxon Collections in Dresden, Lepke, Berlin (catalogue numbers 285 and 286, illustrated plate 25); 12-14.10. 1920 Auction of porcelain: Meissen-China-Japan ivory sculptures paintings and weapons from the Saxon State Collections - Johanneum - Grünes Gewölbe - Gemäldegalerie in Dresden, Lepke, Berlin (catalogue number 781, illustrated plate 37); Ottmar Strauss, Cologne; 06. -08.11.1934 Auction Ottmar Strauss Collection, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt a. M. (catalogue numbers 759-761, illustrated plate 58); acquired there by Dr. Paul Geipel, Dresden; 1943-56 as a bequest from Geipel to Museum Schloss Hinterglauchau;
2024 Restitution