Lot 2
2
A PAIR OF BÖTTGER WHITE SAKE BOTTLES AND COVERS of tapering pear shape and square section, each side applied with a faun's mask flanked by scrolls and foliage, the top rim with pendant husks, the shallowly sloping square covers with lozenge shaped finials (one with chip and bruise to footrim and minute chips to two top corners, one cover with one corner broken and repaired), circa 1715

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A PAIR OF BÖTTGER WHITE SAKE BOTTLES AND COVERS of tapering pear shape and square section, each side applied with a faun's mask flanked by scrolls and foliage, the top rim with pendant husks, the shallowly sloping square covers with lozenge shaped finials (one with chip and bruise to footrim and minute chips to two top corners, one cover with one corner broken and repaired), circa 1715
20cm. high (2)
Provenance
Mrs. E.D.S. Colling, sale Sotheby's, 22 February 1966, lot 56

Lot Essay

Cf. Sonnemann & Wächter, op. cit., no. 67 for bottles of the same shape with various applied ornament, which are still at Dresden; see also a pair of similar form without covers from the Siegfried Salz collection, sold Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 27 March 1929, lot 171 and 172

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