Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG
Lot 64

A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG

THE AUGSBURG DECORATION BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER CIRCA 1715, THE ENGHALSKRUG NUREMBERG OR ANSBACH

Closed16 December 2021

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A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG
THE AUGSBURG DECORATION BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER CIRCA 1715, THE ENGHALSKRUG NUREMBERG OR ANSBACH
With a joined double rope-twist handle, painted with a large central ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers flanked by parrots perched on branches and insects between puce band foliate borders, the neck with a flowering shrub below a green foliate border, the mount chased with up-turned acanthus leaves
10 1⁄2 in. (26.7 cm.) high

The collection of Mrs. M. Quinn, sold; Sotheby’s, London, 29 March 1971, lot 105.

Specialist note


A pewter-mounted enghalskrug of identical form with very closely related decoration in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, is illustrated in Margrit Bauer ed., Europäische Fayencen, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 182, no. 356, col. pl. opposite p. 113, where the enghalskrug is attributed to Ansbach, and is also illustrated by Ducret, ibid., p. 61. No. 5.