A Meissen porcelain tapering box and cover from the Glücksburg Toilet Service, circa 1745
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 EUR
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Description
of shaped circular section, with four gilt panels with white flowerheads, scrolls and husks, alternating with slender panels painted with vignettes of figures in landscapes, two with monuments and two with classical buildings, supported by gilt panels with shells and flanked by narrow bands of gilt scrolls, on a stepped foot, the domed cover similarly decorated with panels of figures, with a flowering green branch finial, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Height 13 cm; 5 ⅛ in
Anonymous sale, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, 1978, lot 228;
Property from the Estate of Max Hoffmann, Christie’s, London, 21 November 2005, lot 45;
Christie's, New York, 18 October 2017, lot 748;
Anonymous sale, Antiquitäten Metz, Heidelberg, 19 May 2018, lot 828;
Acquired at the above sale.
Hermann Jedding, ‘Eine Meissener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg’, Keramos 130, 1990, pp. 3-16.
This box belongs to the extensive and richly ornamented toilet service known as the Glücksburg service, named for the Renaissance castle in Schleswig-Holstein where fourteen components are preserved. The circumstances under which these pieces entered the Schloss Glücksburg collection remain undocumented, as does the identity of the original patron for whom the Meissen manufactory produced the service in the eighteenth century. The service may have been supplied to the Grand Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; however, ownership by the Kings of Denmark cannot be excluded. Schloss Glücksburg remained in the possession of the Danish crown until 1871. Outside of the pieces retained at Shcloss Glücksburg, pieces are in the Kunstgewerbe museum in Cologne; an oval box was offered by Sotheby's, London, 5 April 2002, lot 58; a large scent bottle from the service, formerly in the Collection of Siegfried & Lola Kramarsky, recently sold, Christie’s, New York, 25 April 2024, lot 772, as part of the collection of Dr. Julius and Joan Jacobson; and most recently a small brush handle from the service, formerly in the Robert von Hirsch Collection, Basel, sold at Bonhams, London, 3 July 2025, lot 49.
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