A NIDERVILLER DOCUMENTARY URN-SHAPED ICE-PAIL AND COVER on a spreading circular foot, painted with figures and buildings in landscapes to resemble prints, one inscribed Niderviller, on a bois simulé ground, the cover similarly decorated, the border with a band of flowers on a black ground (restoration to neck of cover and some retouching to border), circa 1790
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A NIDERVILLER DOCUMENTARY URN-SHAPED ICE-PAIL AND COVER on a spreading circular foot, painted with figures and buildings in landscapes to resemble prints, one inscribed Niderviller, on a bois simulé ground, the cover similarly decorated, the border with a band of flowers on a black ground (restoration to neck of cover and some retouching to border), circa 1790
15¼in. (39cm.) high
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See Serge Gauthier, Les porcelainiers du XVIIIe siècle français, p. 267 for a similarly decorated teapot and a coffee-pot, one scene also inscribed 'Niderviller'