Pair of Nymphenburg Porcelain Baskets.
Auction Date: October 23, 2020
Sold for: $360
Lot: 117
Nymphenburg, Germany.
Circa 1920.
Of shaped oval form, the gallery formed as pierced, ribbed trellis, with scroll-form handles to the sides, painted with bouquets and floral springs in polychrome enamels.
Both with impressed shield marks one incised with 43 triangle and S the other with 44 .S near the shield.
2 1/2 H. x 12 1/2 W. x 9 3/4 D.
By descent from the Kaumheimer family, Stuttgart, Germany.
To one: Three short firing cracks along upper rim and a 1 long vertical crack from upper rim toward base, visible to interior but not visible to basket exterior. The other with 2 long firing crack along seam to interior face, where it meets the gallery wall a 2 long shallow crack to upper rim, at the widest point. A glaze blow out (also known as a kiln speckle) that turned into a hairline fracture at the upper rim and firing cracks to handles.