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Lot 104 Dα

A rare Berlin faience orange planter with the coat of arms of the von Morenthal family

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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A rare Berlin faience orange planter with the coat of arms of the von Morenthal family

Large, bell-shaped vessel with a flaring rim and scroll handles resting on a stepped base. Decorated on both sides with a large crowned coat of arms flanked by palm fronds. Unmarked, pierced base. The corpus restored, minor rim chips. H 38.3, W with handles ca. 40.5 cm.
Manufactory of Gerhard Wolbeer, circa 1705.

Provenance

Acquired in 2004 from Johannes Vogt.
Lower Saxon private collection.

Literature

An identical orange planter from the collection of Dr. Heiland in: v. Falke, Altberliner Fayencen, Berlin 1923, illus. 9a. Two of these planters are also housed in the Stadtmuseum Berlin (inv. no. II 72, 301B a/b), published in cat.: Barock-Fayencen. Kurmärkische Manufakturen, Berlin 1994, no. 26.
Cf. cat. Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen, Berlin 2001, no. 30.