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Survivor of the bombing of Dresden porcelain was sold at auction
About 40 objects from the collection of Meissen porcelain, survived the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, sold at auction for a total of 546,000 pounds, according to Artdaily. The most expensive lot of trades became a dancer figurine, made around 1740 and sold for 126,000 pounds.
Also managed to bail out large sums for the two figures dancing harlequins, sold for 108 and 74,000 pounds respectively. Also organizer of the bidding - the auction house Bonhams - stand out among the other lots of porcelain fragments of the temple of Minerva, sold for 20,400 pounds in the evaluation of two to three thousand. According to the representative of Bonhams Sebastian Kuhn, were sold to absolutely all the lots put up for sale. "We are very pleased that this porcelain caused such interest among buyers and that the figurines were sold at such high prices," - he said. For auction was a collection of porcelain Gustav von Klemperer, in the second half of XIX - early XX centuries headed the banking concern Dresdner Bank. It is believed that his collection, which numbered 834 subject, was the largest collection of Meissen porcelain. After the death of von Klemperer in 1926, the collection passed to his heirs, and in 1938 was seized by the Nazis during Kristallnacht. The truck, which contained all the items collection, located in Dresden, where, on the night of 13 February, the bombing of the city. It was believed that the bombing of the collection was lost, but after the war, Dresden Museum staff discovered a small part of the figures. "It's amazing how fragile these figures even survived the bombings," - said Kuhn. During the bombing of Dresden, carried out from 13 to 15 February 1945, the city had been dropped a few thousand tons of bombs. According to approximate data, in the bombing deaths of about 30 to 100 thousands, tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged. (Lenta.Ru) |
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