Lid tureen on original accompanying presenting stand - Meissen, mid 18th century

Vase Dahlias, Charles Schneider 1923-26. Base layer with pink powder melting. Decorative layer with violet powder melting that changes to mauve at the top. Motive etched out. Signature: "Le Verre Francais" Charles Schneider 1923-26. Height 45 cm.

Freiburg im Breisgau, c. 1750

Master Johann Christian Wentzinger (1710-1797), who is considered one of the most important sculptors from Baden of the Rococo period.

He created numerous altarpieces, choir stalls, baptismal fonts and tombs in the Freiburg area. For some years he worked at the cathedral in St. Gallen.

On the richly structured pedestal with acanthus leaves, a rock crystal and a putto head, the Madonna is standing in a dynamically draped garment on the globe with the snake.

Wood, carved with a very well preserved, in parts slightly restored, lustre polychromy.

Height 43 cm.

Venice, 16th century

Probably after Guglielmo della Porta (around 1500-1577).

The expert mastery of the technique of the Bas-relief shows itself in the extraordinary three-dimensional effect of the representation. This is illustrated by the exact, perspectival representation of the building in the background as well as in the richly draped, often overlapping robes of the

figures in the foreground.

Cast bronze, with a wonderfully preserved,

original fire gilding.

Height 24 cm, width 19.5 cm.

Ansbach, around 1750

From the workshop of the Ansbach court ébéniste Martin Schuhmacher (mentioned from 1720-1781).

The masterfully crafted casket is adorned on the sides as well as on the domed lid with extremely fine and lifelike bouquets with tulips, carnations, lilies of the valley, narcissus and other blossoms, held together by artful bows.

Walnut wood, maple and other woods, some of which are coloured; shaded and engraved details.

Height 14 cm, width 33 cm, depth 21 cm.

Paris, c. 1760

Design by Jean-Claude Thomas Duplessis

(Turin 1699 resp. 1700 - 1774 Paris).

Four high quality, pairwise plastically curved wall sconces with rich foliage decoration, made of cast and differentially chased bronze with the original fire gilding.

The attribution to Duplessis, whose bronze works have not yet been researched art historically, is based on comparable dynamic designs of gold-plated mountings for the manufactories of Vincennes and Sèvres. His most important assignment were the candlesticks and fittings for the Bureau du Roi in Versailles. This masterly writing furniture is one of the main works of French furniture art, which was created by Jean-François Oeben and Johann Heinrich Riesener for Louis XV from 1760 onwards.

Height 54 cm.

We would like to thank Dr. Angela Gräfin Wallwitz for her

friendly support and information.

Paris, circa 1790

On a pedestal with partly figural, openwork appliqués, a slender vase with ornamental handles held by birds, on each side carries the five-flamed candelabrum with the centrally raised spout.

Bronze, cast and finely chiselled, partially greenish brown patinated or gilded.

Height 62 cm.

Meissen, mid 18th century

With Gotzkowsky-relief-decor and fine flower bouquets,

knob and handle of the tureen with plastic vegetables and citrus fruits. Very good preservation.

Porcelain, colourfully decorated.

The service was 1741 specially ordered by the Berlin merchant and jewelry dealer Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky

(1710-1775). Gotzkowsky, who later founded the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM), was purveyor to the court of Frederick the Great.

Diameter of the plate 37 cm,

the terrine 24 cm high.