AN ANSBACH FAIENCE HEXAGONAL VASE

FAIENCE

Details

AN ANSBACH FAIENCE HEXAGONAL VASE
CIRCA 1730, MANGANESE L MARK TO BASE

Of baluster form, decorated in a brilliant famille verte palette with two panels each with two birds, one perched and the other flying among flowering peonies, a duck, a fish and a frog in a pond below within arched surrounds on turquoise-green reserved with yellow and blue chrysanthemums and lesser flowers and branches with horizontal borders above and below, blue enamel rim (the base with four original perforations)--11in. (28cm.) high

Provenance

J. Carlebach Galleries, New York

Literature

Ruth Berges, Collector's Choice, South Brunswick and New York, 1967, fig. 224

Lot Essay

Adalbert Klein, Deutsche Fayencen, Brunswick, 1975, pp. 154-156, lists the major examples of this type of Ansbach faience. A vase and cover of this 'fish pond' pattern is in the Residenz in Ansbach. A dish in Würtzburg, illustrated by Riesebieter, Die Deutsche Fayencen, Leipzig, 1921, pl. 72, bears the mark of Wolfgang Meyerhöfer. The almost identical painting makes it unlikely that the L mark on the present piece stands for Löwenfinck, although he was working at the factory in the 1730's.