1758-60, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARKS TO THREE PIECES EXCEPT COVER, STAND AND BOWL IMPRESSED 1, STAND AND BURNER WITH GILDER'S GILT L MARK

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A NYMPHENBURG ROYAL ARMORIAL DATED FOOD-WARMER
1758-60, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARKS TO THREE PIECES EXCEPT COVER, STAND AND BOWL IMPRESSED 1, STAND AND BURNER WITH GILDER'S GILT L MARK
Incorporating a two-handled stand, two-handled bowl, domed cover and burner, the stand of slightly tapering form with two fluted half bell-shaped handles, the front and reverse with two triangular apertures disguised by hoods in the form of inverted spouts, the lower part painted by Georg Christoph Lindemann with an extensive scene including a river-landscape, a central pastoral scene and a harbour scene, the central scene with a signpost inscribed 1758, the harbour scene with a milestone inscribed 41 (?) 1758 (?), the front with a large shaped aperture edged with a green diaper and gilt band border surmounted by the crowned Wittelsbach arms, the top with a similar moulded border, the footrim with a Gitterwerk border (chipping to one hood, slight chipping to other hood and handles, all with slight old restoration); the burner in the shape of a teabowl with a shell handle, painted with a continuous river-landscape scene with a signpost dated 1759 (minute chipping to underside edge of handle); the bowl with two shell handles above a flared flange painted with birds and fruit within a shaped green diaper border (minute chip to edge of one handle); the domed cover with a fruit finial above two vignettes divided by two sections of a similar border (finial with slight wear)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high

Provenance

With A. Torre, from whom it was purchased in 1973.

Literature

Weltkunst, 1st January 1986, fig 39.

Horst Raber, Keramos, January 1974, where the reverse is illustrated.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Lindemann was active at Nymphenburg from 1758 to 1760.

A example of the same form in the Kocher Collection, with the same arms and similar scenes but with different borders, is illustrated by Robert L. Wyss, 'Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Kocher', Bernischen Historischen Museum, Porzellan Catalogue (Bern, 1965), pp. 196-7. Another in the Bäuml Collection, of slightly different form but with the same arms, similar scenes and different borders, is illustrated by A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), pp. 178-179, no. 500.

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