A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs - image-1
A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs - image-2
A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs - image-1A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs - image-2

Lot 114 Dα

A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A rare set of Berlin faience vases with bird-on-rock motifs

Comprising a vase and cover and a pair of baluster-form vases of octagonal section. Decorated throughout with indianische blumen and birds-on-rocks. Unmarked. Minor glaze cracks and rim chips. H ca. 34.3 cm.
Manufactory of Cornelius Funcke, 1st quarter 18th C.

Provenance

Lower Saxon private collection, acquired in 1995.

Literature

Two identical baluster-form vases in the collection of Dr. Heiland (in: v. Falke, Altberliner Fayencen, Berlin 1923, illus. 30 b).
The form and size of the vase and cover corresponds to a pair of vases in the Sammlung Grassimuseum Leipzig (in cat.: Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen, Berlin 2001, no. 42).