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Lot 945 Dα

A highly important faience pitcher decorated by Wolfgang Rössler

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 32.500 € (incl. premium)
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A highly important faience pitcher decorated by Wolfgang Rössler

Decorated with nymphs and fauns playing instruments in a water landscape. Unglazed base incised II, the lower terminal of the handle monogrammed WR in black. The vermeil basal ring incised II, the lid and base with Nuremberg assay mark and maker's mark of Wolfgang Rössler. H pitcher c. 17, H with thumbrest 21.2 cm.
The faience Hanau, after 1661, decor and vermeil mountings by Wolfgang Rössler, Nuremberg, after 1682.

The Nuremberg based artist Wolfgang Rössler painted faience pitchers as a so-called hausmaler and left behind an impressive oeuvre. His work as a goldsmith is less well known. He received his master's certification on 7th February 1682, by which time he is thought to have already been working as a faience painter. In 1984, Helmut Bosch published around 40 pitchers attributed to him, painted in black, purple, and polychrome pigments. He is last documented in 1711, when he sold his house, and it is thought that he died in around 1717.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired from Gerhard Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Illus. in: Bosch, Die Nürnberger Hausmaler, Munich 1984, no. 211.
Cf. also cat.: Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst, vol. I, pl. 1, Nuremberg 2007, no. 739, p. 353.