A Hanau faience pitcher decorated by Bartholomeus Seuter
Painted with a large polychrome bouquet, a bird perching on a branch, insects, and a spider's web. The top of the handle with a bow and trailing ribbons in purple camaieu. Unglazed unmarked base. Minor chips to the handle. Pewter mountings. H c. 22, H with thumbrest 25 cm.
The faience Hanau, decor by Bartholomäus Seuter, Augsburg, c. 1720.
Provenance
Collection of Georg Tillmann, Hamburg, auctioned by Sotheby´s New York on 22nd April 1982.
Galerie Neuse, Bremen.
Gerhard Röbbig art dealers, Munich.
Private collection, Westphalia.
Literature
Cf. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellanhausmaler, vol. 1, reprint Stuttgart 1971, p. 91 ff. Pl. 6 shows a pitcher in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg with Seuter's initials "B.S." and the date 1717.
An almost identically decorated pitcher in: Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, vol. II, Braunschweig 1972, no. 7.
Cf. also: Bauer, Europäische Fayencen, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt 1977, no. 354 ff., for similarly decorated pitchers, especially no. 355 which has the same ribbon above the handle, also attributed to Bartholomäus Seuter.
Cf. also two very similar pitchers by Bartholomäus Seuter in the Neuner collection (Ziffer, Malerei und Feuerkunst, Wolfratshausen 2005, no. 21 f.).