Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 113
A rare Schrezheim faience tureen and cover, circa 1770
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,687.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A rare Schrezheim faience tureen and cover, circa 1770
Elaborately moulded with scrollwork and applied with leafy branches and flowers, the tureen with scroll handles and pierced lion masks at the sides, a pierced chamber on the inside of the tureen over each mask, the cover with a lion mask at each end and a cornucopia finial, 48cm across handles; 39cm high (some chips overall) (2)
Footnotes
A tureen and cover with its stand of the same model but with pierced scrollwork to the rim and cover is in the Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf (H. Erdner/G. Nagel, Die Fayencefabrik zu Schrezheim 1752-1865 (1972), no. 336.
