Lot Essay
For a vase and cover by the same hand see Siegfried Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan, vol. II, no. 7 and nos. 123 and 124 for a tray and an écuelle
Details
A FÜRSTENBERG PART TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE probably painted by Ahrend August Hartmann in a subdued brown and green palette with figures among ruined buildings in wooded landscape vignettes within gilt line rims, the interior of the cups and the covers with a gilt flower-spray, comprising:
A baluster coffee-pot and cover with moulded wishbone handle and mask spout (repair and crack to neck, extended firing crack to foot)
A hot-milk jug and cover
A bullet-shaped teapot
A circular sugar-bowl and cover (minute chip to footrim)
A slop-basin
A shaped oval dish (extensively damaged and repaired)
Six large teacups (one footrim and two with rim chips, slight rubbing to gilt rims)
Five small teacups (one handle damaged and one cup with hole to base)
-blue F marks and various incised marks, circa 1775
A baluster coffee-pot and cover with moulded wishbone handle and mask spout (repair and crack to neck, extended firing crack to foot)
A hot-milk jug and cover
A bullet-shaped teapot
A circular sugar-bowl and cover (minute chip to footrim)
A slop-basin
A shaped oval dish (extensively damaged and repaired)
Six large teacups (one footrim and two with rim chips, slight rubbing to gilt rims)
Five small teacups (one handle damaged and one cup with hole to base)
-blue F marks and various incised marks, circa 1775