A HOLITSCH HUNGARIAN FAIENCE TWOHANDLED TUREEN AND COVER, inspired by French faience, the circular body painted in colours with bunches of Indianische Blumen and insects, the handles modelled as a gnarled treetrunk in brown and yellow, with four branches terminating in trompe-l'oeuil leaves in relief, the domed terraced cover en suite with applied branch finial (two chips to cover repaired, the tureen with two hairline cracks), second half 18th Century, marked F in overglaze black for Faber (one of the German founders of this factory)

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A HOLITSCH HUNGARIAN FAIENCE TWOHANDLED TUREEN AND COVER, inspired by French faience, the circular body painted in colours with bunches of Indianische Blumen and insects, the handles modelled as a gnarled treetrunk in brown and yellow, with four branches terminating in trompe-l'oeuil leaves in relief, the domed terraced cover en suite with applied branch finial (two chips to cover repaired, the tureen with two hairline cracks), second half 18th Century, marked F in overglaze black for Faber (one of the German founders of this factory)
16 cm high

Lot Essay

A faïence factory was started here in 1743 at the instance of Francis of Lorraine, consort of the Empress Maria Theresia.

A similar tureen was sold in our Christie's rooms, London, 25th June 1979 lot 242.

Cf. A. Kiss, faïence of Holitsch and Tata, plate 8.

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