A rare faience goblet with "swamp flower" motifs - image-1

Lot 783 Dα

A rare faience goblet with "swamp flower" motifs

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.890 € (incl. premium)
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A rare faience goblet with "swamp flower" motifs

Slightly tapering cup on a domed base, painted on either side with chrysanthemums, reeds and a lily pad. Hollow glazed base marked K in blue. The cup restored, wear to the glaze of the rim. H 18.8, diameter 12.2 cm.
Künersberg or Schrezheim, around 1745 - 55.

This unusual decor comprising a still life of marsh flowers was based on Asian models and was already being produced in Hanau at the end of the 17th century, and from 1720 in Nuremberg, where it was mainly found on plates. The two manufactories founded later near Memmingen and Ellwangen adopted the motif at around the same time in the middle of the 18th century, with the chrysanthemum flower variant.

Literature

Cf. Erdner, Die Fayencefabrik zu Schrezheim 1752 - 1865. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Keramik, Donauwörth 1942, fig. 38, a jug with the same decoration and beech mark.
Cf. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, vol. II, London 1993, p. 200 f., a narrow-necked jug with decoration from Künersberg.
See also Glaser, Nürnberger Fayencen. Geschichte und Erzeugnisse einer Manufaktur in der Reichsstadt, Nuremberg 2017, cat. 247 ff.