Live Auction 6093Christie's Interiors
A FRANKENTHAL CIRCULAR SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER AND A FURSTENBERG OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
Lot 422

A FRANKENTHAL CIRCULAR SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER AND A FURSTENBERG OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER

THE FIRST CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK AND INCISED 10, THE SECOND CIRCA 1785, INCISED I S MARK

Closed10 May 2011

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GBP 1,375

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A FRANKENTHAL CIRCULAR SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER AND A FURSTENBERG OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
THE FIRST CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK AND INCISED 10, THE SECOND CIRCA 1785, INCISED I S MARK
The first painted with sheep and cattle grazing by rocks and ruins in wooded vignettes, the domed cover with pear and foliage finial, the Fürstenberg sugar-box with bust length portrait medallions of a man and woman, the cover with a gilt cone finial
The first 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam., the second 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) wide (2)

Specialist note

For a similar Fürstenberg sugar-box and other teawares with similar portraits, see Weisses Gold aus Fürstenberg, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster and Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, 1988-1989 Exhibition Catalogue (1988), pp. 119 and 394-397.