Description
Nymphenburg Porcelain Lidded Sugar Bowl from Hermann Göring’s Guest Wagon 10 ‘234’
A fabulous snow-white porcelain lidded sugar bowl, specially produced by the Nymphenburg factory in Munich for the Deutsche Reichsbahn Sonderzugs.
The bowl carries designation marks for Hermann Göring’s Sonderzug ‘Asien’, and in particular carriage number ‘234’ which was Göring’s guest wagon.
The highly glazed porcelain is accentuated with a fine red trim and even finer gold trim to the top rim. Centered to the main body of the bowl is the Deutsche Reichsbahn insignia, a gold eagle with wreathed swastika straddled by the letters D and R. To the underside is found the green Nymphenburg crest, an impressed Nymphenburg shield, production numbers; ‘124’, ‘1 1/2’, and a hand-painted number ‘234’ in black indicating the wagon number. The lid lifter has a red top.
Condition:
Super rare sugar bowl in mint condition, beautiful porcelain, a must-have historical collectible, and superb investment piece.
Dimensions:
Width 9cm
Height 7.5cm (At the highest point with lid)
Weight:
162g
All weights and measurements are approximate.
