CIRCA 1760

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A North German rococo architectural stove
Circa 1760
In four principal sections, painted in grand feu colours with ribbon-ted bouquets, flower-sprays and birds and insects in flight, the central two parts of oval section with moulded canted corners with foliage terminals and with a rococo cartouche flanked by palms, surmounted by a inverted campana-shaped upper section and on a bombé rectangular lower section, the lower section with moulded canted corners with scrolling foliage, the slightly arched front with a central scroll-moulded cartouche above an arched niche painted with actors dancing on a formal garden stage-set flanked by blue drapery (some restoration at joints and extremities, slight chipping to egdes) on a cast-iron rectangular oven moulded with a galloping horse in a scrolled-moulded cartouche at the front, one side with crowned GR III, the other with K 1781 over a hinged door, on four pierced cabriole legs
Approximately 82 in. (208 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

Stoves or Kachelofen decorated in grand feu colours were widely produced in the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein area in the third quarter of the 18th Century.

Lesum, Hamburg and Stockelsdorf are but three of the most active centres of production. Since the craftsmen involved also moved regularly from one pottery to another, it is difficult to establish a precise attribution.

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