Imperial gifts – from Meissen to Wedgwood
The 102 lots of European ceramics that rounded off Christie’s (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) December 13 furnishing sale at King Street had, despite a degree of softness to the Meissen market, a generally high take-up for that factory, with 18 of the 25 lots of tablewares and figures changing hands and some strong individual results.
As well as the apparently unrecorded commedia dell’arte figure of The Greeting Harlequin of c.1740, …