Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A HÖCHST PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED NIGHT-LIGHT FOOD-WARMER (VEILLEUSE), COVER, LINER AND PAN
Lot 178

A HÖCHST PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED NIGHT-LIGHT FOOD-WARMER (VEILLEUSE), COVER, LINER AND PAN

CIRCA 1755, IRON-RED WHEEL MARK, INCISED F TO THE WARMER, PUCE PAINTER'S MARKS

Closed16 December 2021

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GBP 12,500

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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED NIGHT-LIGHT FOOD-WARMER (VEILLEUSE), COVER, LINER AND PAN
CIRCA 1755, IRON-RED WHEEL MARK, INCISED F TO THE WARMER, PUCE PAINTER'S MARKS
The warmer with two pierced satyr masks, one above a shaped aperture, two scrolling foliate handles, painted with puce landscape vignettes and sprays of flowers, the cover painted with puce fruit and a bird, the liner with two puce and gilt handles
8 1⁄8 in. (20.7 cm.) high

Specialist note


A night-light food-warmer of related form was sold along with the contents of Petit Fleur d'Eau, Lake Geneva, by Christie’s, London, on 2 May 2002, lot 437. Another example is illustrated by Kurt Röder and Michel Oppenheim, Höchster Porzellan, Mainz, 1930, pl. 126, no. 712, and another (without a cover and liner) pl. 128, no. 714.