Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 105
A rare Copenhagen, Store Kongensgade, faience domed cover, circa 1749-72
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A rare Copenhagen, Store Kongensgade, faience domed cover, circa 1749-72
Of domed, canted rectangular form with an elborate shell-shaped finial, painted in blue with a stylised landscape scene depicting a bridge and a pagoda, with a flowering bush at either end, the rim with a trellis-ground band reserved with flower panels, 39.6cm long; 20.5cm high (some losses to glaze)
Footnotes
A closely similar domed cover was sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 13-15 February 1917, lot 874.
