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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
We are delighted to announce the opening of our new, second saleroom in Smeaton Close, adjacent to our main saleroom, in which we will hold regular auctions in addition to our current calendar.
04/09/2025
Reeman Dansie Auctioneers of Colchester is delighted to announce the auction of the collection of Mr Harry Sunderland, an avid Rolls-Royce enthusiast and restorer who for four decades, has delighted newly weds in Norfolk with his wonderful cars, which he hired out.
29/08/2025
The sale includes a good selection of clocks, including some scarce late 17th Century Lantern clocks.
08/08/2025