Lot Essay
Cf. Willi Goder et. al., Johann Friedrich Böttger (Leipzig 1982), pl. 63, and also the similar example sold in these Rooms on 3 June 1996, lot 450.
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CIRCA 1715
Details
A Böttger red stoneware hexagonal baluster teacaddy
Circa 1715
Each recessed panel moulded in low relief with birds of paradise in flight or perched among the branches of flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork, the angles incised with hatching (slight chipping to footrim, small chip to rim, small firing crack to base)
4.7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high
Circa 1715
Each recessed panel moulded in low relief with birds of paradise in flight or perched among the branches of flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork, the angles incised with hatching (slight chipping to footrim, small chip to rim, small firing crack to base)
4.7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high