Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
TWO STRASBOURG FAIENCE PIGEON TUREENS AND COVERS
Lot 790

TWO STRASBOURG FAIENCE PIGEON TUREENS AND COVERS

CIRCA 1750, BLUE 3 TO THE BASE AND COVER OF ONE, BLUE 6 TO THE BASE AND COVER OF THE OTHER, THE MODELS BY J.-G. LANZ

Closed18 October 2017

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TWO STRASBOURG FAIENCE PIGEON TUREENS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE 3 TO THE BASE AND COVER OF ONE, BLUE 6 TO THE BASE AND COVER OF THE OTHER, THE MODELS BY J.-G. LANZ
Each standing on a mound base, its breast supported by a stalk or branch, one with a manganese head and breast, the other with light violet head and pale grey body, both with puce feet
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high, the manganese example

With Vandermeersch, Paris.

Specialist note

A single pigeon tureen from the René Fribourg Collection, New York, was sold Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1963, lot 381, and is also illustrated in the Répertoire de la Faience Française, Vol. V. pl. 25A. Another example is illustrated by Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé et al., Faïences Françaises, Paris, 1980, p. 287, no. 440. Also see H. Haug, Les Faïences et Porcelaines de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 1922, pl. XXI, ex. C, here described as a "Grand Pigeon servant de terrine, modèle de J.-G. Lanz. Peinture au naturel."