Coming up for sale in our forthcoming Royalty, Fine Art & Antiques sale is an exceptionally rare pair of Italian Vezzi porcelain chocolate beakers, circa 1720-1727.
09/06/2025
The Vezzi porcelain factory, based in Venice, was the third European factory to produce true hard-paste porcelain, after Meissen and Vienna. In 1719, Francesco Vezzi visited Vienna, and a year later he obtained the services of the Christoph Conrad Hunger, an arcanist and technician who had also worked at Meissen.
The factory was only in operation for seven years, and fewer than 200 pieces of Vezzi porcelain are known to exist.
These beakers are characteristic of the playful style employed at the factory; see, for example, the statues 'coming to life' in the niches of the ruins.
Lot 222. Est. £20,000-30,000
Coming up for sale in our forthcoming Royalty, Fine Art & Antiques sale is an exceptionally rare pair of Italian Vezzi porcelain chocolate beakers, circa 1720-1727.
09/06/2025
These lovely pieces never go out of fashion and are for sale along with many other items in our Homes & Interiors Sale 20th - 21st May.
16/05/2025
From driftwood sculptures to fine art Reeman Dansie’s East Anglian, Antiques & Fine Art Sale (Tuesday 29th April - Thursday 1st May) is wonderfully eclectic in true East Anglian style.
24/04/2025