Max Esser artwork • statue • sculpture • for sale A Meissen stoneware chess set and an inlaid ivory hardwood chess board
Max Esser
Barth (Duitsland) 1885-1945 Berlijn
1885-1945
A Meissen stoneware chess set and an inlaid ivory hardwood chess board
Böttger-stoneware 8.2 x 2.5 cm, signed incised with factorymark and serial numbers and executed second quarter 20th century
This sculpture is for sale.
Price: € 6,800
Provenance: The Dr. Kaspar Stock Collection of Chess Sets.
Literature: vgl.: Mathieu en Ine Kloprogge, 'Chessmen: Art and History', Amsterdam 2007, pag. 264-268. Mathieu en Ine Kloprogge, Het schaakspel in Nederland pag 188, afb.
The sculpter Max Esser (1885-1945), was given a studio at the Meissen factory in 1920. This allowed him, as a freelance artist, the opportunity to work in both porcelain and Böttger ware. He archieved acclaim for his impressive animal figures and won the Grand Prix at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne of 1937 in Paris.
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