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Click here to subscribeA pair of modern Dresden porcelain pedestal urns and covers, each ovoid body enamelled with a ribbon tied basket of flowers with rose sprig cartouches on a gilt ground above basal flutes, fluted pedestal and square base, rams head handles, conforming high covers with acanthus moulded decoration and bud finial, 40cm high. S/D.
A VERY RARE SAXON DECORATED COMBINED GUN REST AND SPEAR, CIRCA 1730, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY JOHANN TOBIAS GRAEFENSTEIN, with U-shaped head formed with a recurved flat edge on each side, robust faceted socket moulded at the top, fitted with a long hinged sprung spear blade forming the central spike, secured to the socket by a pierced rectangular lug engaged by a press stud when extended and to the haft by a sliding button when retracted, the head and the blade all finely etched and gilt with scrolling foliage within linear borders, on its original wooden haft with an additional pair of straps and conical steel shoe, 76.8cm; 30 1/4in head, when extended, An almost identical combined gun rest and spear decorated in the same manner is preserved in the former Electoral Armoury, Dresden, inv. no. T-98. See H-W Lewerken 1989, p. 273, no. 149b. Johann Tobias Graefenstein is recorded circa 1713-1771. He succeeded Peter Tanner as Hofbüchsenmacher in 1750.
A FINE AND RARE GERMAN ETCHED, BLUED AND GILT COMB MORION OF THE TRABANTENLEIBGARDE OF THE PRINCE ELECTORS OF SAXONY, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1580, with tall skull formed in one piece and rising to a roped comb, the base encircled with a row of fifteen gilt-brass lion masks over lining-rivets, each with a ring in its mouth (one ring missing, one boss an early replacement), narrow brim rising to a point at the front and rear, decorated at its edges with a roped inward turn (the right side showing two short cracks), struck with Nuremberg mark and a small serial mark at the front (the points each with a small hole, plume -holder missing), the skull decorated with etched and gilt bands of interlaced foliate scrollwork encircling the figure of Mutius Scaevola before Porsena on one side and Marcus Curtius leaping into the gulf on the other, the comb with further etched and gilt bands of running foliage and a central-cabled medallion framing, on the respective faces, the arms of the Dukes of Saxony and the Archmarshallship of the Holy Roman Empire, the brim decorated with etched and gilt bands of running scrolls, and retaining much original gilding and early blued finish throughout (the bluing largely oxidised), 30cm; 11 3/4in high, Provenance, The Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden, Rutherford Stuyvesant, Important Austrian Art, sold Christie's London, 1993, lot number 113, Literature, The Arms and Armour Collection of Rutherford Stuyevesant, 1914, cat. No. 26. This helmet belongs to a distinctive group which was first made for the Trabantenleibgarde of the Elector August I of Saxony (1553-86) and continued to be used, and possibly added to, in the time of his successors Christian I (1586-91) and Christian II (1601-11). Originally this would have matched the black doublets and yellow trunk hoses of the uniform of the guards. A large number of helmets from this group, which may have included the present example, were removed from the Electoral armoury in the 1830s and sent to the State Opera House in Dresden for theatrical use, many of which were seen there by Bashford Dean in 1912. See H. Nickel 1989, pp.117-21 and I. Eaves 2002, pp. 149-150.
A RARE SAXON MUSKETEER'S POWDER-FLASK, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, formed in imitation of flattened cowhorn, of carved ebonised wood, carved with a Saxon spear bearer in contemporary dress on the outer face and bold scrolling foliage on the inner face, fitted with iron basal cap and nozzle, the latter fitted with spring cut-off and lever closure, long belt hook, and six loops for suspension, 21.5cm; 8 1/2in long, Provenance:, The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden, Flasks of this type were carried by the Trabanten-Leib Garde of Christian II (r. 1591-1611). Another flask from this group was included in the sale of Highly Important Arms from the Saxon Royal Collections, Sotheby & Co. 23rd March 1970, lot 4.
A Dresden porcelain leaf shaped dessert bowl, cover and stand, late 19th Century, painted with lovers in landscapes beneath scattered floral bouquets and blue trellis rims reserved with bird panels, the handles formed as branches, underglaze blue 'AR' mark to bases (glued repair to bowl and handle of cover).
A Helena Wolfsohn decorated Dresden porcelain pierced cabinet plate, late 19th Century, the cobalt blue ground reserved to the centre with a square panel enamelled with a classical maiden, a young boy and a dove within gilt foliate scrollwork surmounted by a basket of flowers, the pierced rim outlined in gilt above gilt foliate swags, underglaze blue crowned 'D' mark to base, diameter approx 23cm.
A pair of Meissen style Dresden porcelain figure groups, late 19th Century, each modelled as four putti standing in a circle playing instruments around a central singing cherub, on rocky circular gilt edged bases, underglaze blue mark to bases 'R 1762', height approx 16.5cm (minor faults and restoration).
A Dresden porcelain figure group of two cherubs, late 19th Century, one playing a lute the other holding a bow, raised on a scroll moulded naturalistic base, underglaze blue mark to base (minor faults and restoration) together with a 20th Century Sitzendorf porcelain Chelsea style figure of a gallant with a recumbent sheep.
A small 'Vienna' porcelain vase, late 19th Century, the U-shaped body painted by Asime, signed, with a titled figure group 'Pomona', within a gilt frame against a gilt overlaid magenta ground flanked by gilt angular handles on a pedestal base, underglaze blue pseudo Hapsburg shield mark to base with black script title (faults and repairs), a 20th Century Dresden floral encrusted and pierced circular bowl and cover and four other pieces of Continental porcelain (some faults).
A SOUTH GERMAN PINE CUPBOARD, the interior fitted two shelves and two small drawers enclosed by panelled doors, with a shaped scroll pediment with all over painted turtle dove and stylised flower decoration with pilasters and canted corners and original lock and key with embossed escutcheons, dated 1841, 75" high x 55" wide (see illustration). (This piece was acquired Dresden c.1911 and inside the right hand door there is a poem written in a South German dialect dated 5 Mai 1896 Baumgarting By Johanna Reiter with translation available).
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