Lot Essay
The similar vases in the Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf are illustrated by Adalbert Klein, Deutsche Fayencen, fig. 86
CIRCA 1770
Details
Two Magdeburg reticulated rococo baluster vases and covers
Circa 1770
Of similar form to the preceding, painted, one with rustic figures in landscapes with classical ruins, the other with Pierrot and Columbine, Capitano Spavento and a youth writing a letter in similar landscapes, the first vase with blue and the second with manganese hexafoils (the cover of the first vase broken across and restuck, extensive losses to flower finial, small glaze losses to body, the cover to the second vase with two large chips, extensive losses and restoration to finial, large restored chip to neck, three chips to footrim, other minor glaze losses), manganese M marks
12¼in. (31cm.) high (2)
Circa 1770
Of similar form to the preceding, painted, one with rustic figures in landscapes with classical ruins, the other with Pierrot and Columbine, Capitano Spavento and a youth writing a letter in similar landscapes, the first vase with blue and the second with manganese hexafoils (the cover of the first vase broken across and restuck, extensive losses to flower finial, small glaze losses to body, the cover to the second vase with two large chips, extensive losses and restoration to finial, large restored chip to neck, three chips to footrim, other minor glaze losses), manganese M marks
12¼in. (31cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Otto Blohm, the second with no. 433