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Lot 1030 Dα

A rare Böttger stoneware jug

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
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A rare Böttger stoneware jug

Red Böttger stoneware with silver mountings. The original lid can be lifted via a delicate silver mounting, with an acorn thumbrest. Impressed dreher's mark of Peter Geithner the Elder. Chips around the base and the inner rim of the lid. H with thumbrest 21.4 cm.
Circa 1711/12.

Provenance

Auctioned by Christie's London on 22nd May 2019, lot 332.
The Domanski Collection.

Literature

A similar tankard with a silver lid in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Ob. no. BK-1957-40).
Further early Böttger stoneware items illustrated in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, p. 69 ff.