A Kiel chinoiserie shaped oval two-handled, tureen, cover and stand

CIRCA 1768

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A Kiel chinoiserie shaped oval two-handled, tureen, cover and stand
Circa 1768
The rococo-scroll handles enriched in puce, green and brown, the sides and centre of the dish painted in the Chinese famille rose style with a lady immortal standing on a large leaf with a bow and flowers tied to her staff, the borders with trailing flower-sprays and yellow scrolls reserved on brown grounds, the cover with elaborate artichoke finial with four leaves in a cruciform arrangment (the body of the tureen with three extensive cracks, the stand with three rim chips, slight chip to leaf of finial)
The stand 16in. (40.5cm.) wide

Provenance

Hermann Emden, Hamburg, sale Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 3 November 1908, lot 201 (as Marseille)
Otto Blohm, no. 439

Lot Essay

This would appear to be the only known Formstuck of this pattern. A dish in the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe is illustrated by Adalbert Klein, Deutsche Fayencen, fig. 273. The present lot is mentioned in the text p. 255. Other pieces from the service are illustrated by Margarete Jarchow, Fayencen des 18 Jahrhunderts aus Schleswig-Holstein, pl. 35 and the Cologne Museum plate by Ernst Schlee, Kieler Fayencen fig. 61

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