Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 115
A Hanau faience charger, circa 1680-1700
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Hanau faience charger, circa 1680-1700
Of pleated shape, decorated with an elaborate bucolic landscape with figures in various pursuits, all surrounding a large centrally placed tree, 35cm diam. (tight haircrack)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Sperling Collection, Munich
A highly comparable pleated dish is illustrated in Uta Piereth et.al., Museum Deutscher Fayencen in Schloss Höchstädt (2010), p. 46.
The first German faience factory was founded in Hanau in 1661. The Dutch entrepreneurs Daniel Behaghel and Jacobus van der Walle asked for a license to produce 'Porcelain-Backerey'. Friedrich Casimir, Graf von Hanau was the first to react, and thanks to the participation of very capable Dutch workmen the factory soon achieved a high level of faience production.
