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Lot 786 Dα

A Frankfurt faience jug with angel's head, fruit and flower motifs

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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A Frankfurt faience jug with angel's head, fruit and flower motifs

Richly decorated with a finely painted fruit and vegetable wreath, tied at the handle with ribbons. The lip with a similar garland of fruit and foliage. Smoothed unmarked base. Yellowed restorations to the base of the handle and vertical cracks to the neck. Pewter cover, cuff and basal ring, H with thumb rest 18 cm.
Frankfurt, period of Johann Christian Fehr, around 1680/1690.

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse.

Literature

Cf. Brattig/Hesse (eds.), Der schöne Schein, Heidelberg-Berlin-Cologne 2013, cat. no. 18.