Lot Essay
A similar example, lacking its cover is illustrated by Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-manufaktur Höchst, fig. 138. According to Reber the I is an unidentified painter's mark
CIRCA 1750
Details
A Höchst rectangular lobed tea-caddy and cover
Circa 1750
Moulded in relief and painted in colours with trailing flowering branches, the gadrooned and pointed finial enriched in puce (slight glaze losses to cover), pink I/wheel mark
5¼in. (13cm.) high
Circa 1750
Moulded in relief and painted in colours with trailing flowering branches, the gadrooned and pointed finial enriched in puce (slight glaze losses to cover), pink I/wheel mark
5¼in. (13cm.) high
Provenance
Otto Blohm no. 699