THE AUGSBURG DECORATION BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER CIRCA 1715, THE ENGHALSKRUG NUREMBERG OR ANSBACH

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A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI ENGHALSKRUG
THE AUGSBURG DECORATION BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER CIRCA 1715, THE ENGHALSKRUG NUREMBERG OR ANSBACH
With a joined double rope-twist handle, painted with a large central ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers flanked by parrots perched on branches and insects between puce band foliate borders, the neck with a flowering shrub below a green foliate border, the mount chased with up-turned acanthus leaves
10 1⁄2 in. (26.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The collection of Mrs. M. Quinn, sold; Sotheby’s, London, 29 March 1971, lot 105.

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, Meiβner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, bis 1718 um 1750, Brunswick, 1972, Vol. II, Front Cover, Col. pl. 1 and p. 35, no. 1, where the enghalskrug is attributed to Nuremberg.

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Lot Essay

A pewter-mounted enghalskrug of identical form with very closely related decoration in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, is illustrated in Margrit Bauer ed., Europäische Fayencen, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 182, no. 356, col. pl. opposite p. 113, where the enghalskrug is attributed to Ansbach, and is also illustrated by Ducret, ibid., p. 61. No. 5.

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