CIRCA 1765, CROWNED INTERLACED CT MARKS TO BASE, CENTRAL SECTION AND COVER OF THE BASKET IN BLUE AND IN RED TO THE BASE OF THE BASKET, THREE FIGURES AND ONE JUG MARKED IN BLUE, ONE FIGURE IN IRON-RED, THE FIGURES, SALTS AND JUGS WITH VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

细节

A Frankenthal rococo centre-piece
Circa 1765, crowned interlaced CT marks to base, central section and cover of the basket in blue and in red to the base of the basket, three figures and one jug marked in blue, one figure in iron-red, the figures, salts and jugs with various incised marks
Modelled by J.F. Lück, in three principle sections comprising a pierced oval two-handled tray with four raised pierced platforms edged with gilt foliage scrolls containing four sweetmeat figures of gallants and companions emblematic of the Seasons wearing pale, striped and coloured clothes and seated beside shell-moulded baskets with their seasonal attributes and on pierced gilt scroll-moulded bases and divided by four scroll-moulded recesses containing two shaped oval salts on scroll-moulded feet and two scroll-moulded ewers with double-scroll loop handles, all painted with loose bouquets, trailing flowers and flower-sprays on a pierced gilt scroll-moulded base, the central pierced waisted section with moulded gilt foliage and trellis ornament, supporting a pierced oval two-handled basket and tapering conical cover with moulded foliage scrolls and feuilles-de-choux (the tray with chip to one raised platform, several chips to foliate scrolls of waisted central section, chip to footrim of basket, central section basket and cover pierced through centre, one salt with large chip to foot, Summer and Autumn with chips to hats, Autumn with repaired chip to edge of shell, Winter with repair to right hand and flaking to black shoes, all with some minor chipping to extremities), sold with a glazed tapering rectangular case on a giltwood base
21 in. (53 cm.) wide, 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high

来源

Somerely House, Hampshire.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

There appear to be two other known Frankenthal centre-pieces of this type in existence. Of these two, the centre-piece in the Erkenbert-Museum in Frankenthal, is the more similar to the present lot, and it is illustrated by Edgar J. Hürkey, 'Frankenthaler Porzellan' Catalogue (1990), p. 37, no. 25. The central supported pierced basket and cover is almost identical to the present lot, and it also has four figures emblematic of the Seasons. However, as its other components are lacking, it is less complete than the present lot.

The largest and most elaborate example is illustrated in Friedrich H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (1911), pl. 159, no. 627. This flamboyant centre-piece incorporates a large amount of figures of different sizes and types, and the central basket and cover is also of a different form from the other two centre-pieces. Hofmann lists it as being part of the Dr. Adolf List Collection, which was sold before the Second World War.