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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
Harry Becker was born in Colchester in 1865 to German parents Henrietta and Charles. His father Charles, who served as a field surgeon in various campaigns including Crimea, was drafted to Colchester in 1856 and there they settled.
19/03/2026
A charming and historically significant letter written by A. A. Milne to his longtime collaborator and illustrator E. H. Shepard, revealing a previously unseen glimpse into the creative world of the Pooh books, will be offered for sale by Reeman Dansie auctioneers of Colchester on the 18th of March.
14/03/2026
Reeman Dansie are pleased to announce the sale by auction of a remarkable Second World War archive belonging to a nurse who bravely served during the fall of France, Miss Mary Edytha Darby.
14/03/2026