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LOT 1000
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[Austria. Weissenstein Castle] 2 interior views: "Prospect des Spiegel und Porcelan

Cabinets von Seithen des Eingangs./ (...) gegen die Seith des Gartens." 2 engraved views in optica style by J.G. Pinz (1697-c. 1767) after S. Kleiner (1700-1761), both 28 x 40 cm, above engraved captions in German and French and numbered respectively 19 and 20 in the plate, published in Augsburg by the Heirs of J. Wolff, (1728).

The second with water stain in lower right corner, sl. affecting the text, and a few water stains in blank margins. Both with small marginal tears/ sl. frayed and remnants of former mount at upper corners verso. Kat. Berlin 2121; K. Lohmeyer, Schönbornschlösser: Die Stichwerke Salomon Kleiners Favorita ob Mainz, Weissenstein ob Pommersfelden und Gailbach in Franken (Heidelberg, 1927). Fine interior views of one of the main rooms in the summer residence of elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn, the final 2 prints of a series of 20 engravings on the castle, published together with 7 views of the Geibach castle. The prestigious castle was built between 1711 and 1718. The mirror room is richly decorated with exotic ornaments and the figures of Indians and Turks, framing the Chinese porcelain that Lothar Franz collected. (total 2)

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