TWO GLIENITZ FAYENCE PARROT-JUGS AND COVERS
Lot 176

TWO GLIENITZ FAYENCE PARROT-JUGS AND COVERS

CIRCA 1770, MANGANESE CONJOINED AB MARKS

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 5,625

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TWO GLIENITZ FAYENCE PARROT-JUGS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1770, MANGANESE CONJOINED AB MARKS
Each modelled as a parrot perched on a circular mound base, with manganese and brightly coloured speckled plumage, one with green wings, the other with turquoise wings, their backs applied with twisted loop handles (the example with green wings broken through legs, cover with repair to beak, overpainted chip to neck, both with minute chipping to rims and minute flaking to enamels)
Each 7 in. (17.9 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

For a similar example, see E. Fuchs and P. Heiland, Die Deutsche Fayence-Kultur (Munich, 1925), pl. 102a.