Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A PEWTER-MOUNTED FRANKFURT OR HANAU FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG AND COVER
Lot 70

A PEWTER-MOUNTED FRANKFURT OR HANAU FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG AND COVER

CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION ALMOST CERTAINLY BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER, AUGSBURG

Closed16 December 2021

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GBP 12,500

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A PEWTER-MOUNTED FRANKFURT OR HANAU FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG AND COVER
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION ALMOST CERTAINLY BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER, AUGSBURG
Painted in Eisenrot with an amorous couple in an embrace and smoking pipes, within a colourful cartouche with parrots perched on scale-pattern panels, ribbon-tied palms below and a central vase of flowers above, the neck with ribbon-tied flowering garlands, the neck interior marbled, the hinged pewter cover engraved with the initials ·: C :: Z :·
12 1⁄16 in. (30.2 cm.) high overall

Specialist note


The print source for the amorous couple is a 1705 engraving by Bernhart Picart. For an illustration of the engraving, see Deborah Gage and Madeleine Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories, London, 1988, p. 127.

For a tankard dated 1717 with a related cartouche in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Leipzig, 1925, Vol. I, col. pl. 6.