£110,000 rediscovered royal gift

Star billing at Christie’s King Street sale of selected English and Continental ceramics on December 6 went to three Meissen Augustus Rex covered baluster jars of 1740 with the AR monogram and Dreher’s marks XII to the base.

Known as the Mocenigo Cornaro garniture, it takes its name from the accollée arms of the Mocenigo fa…

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