A PAIR OF HOCHST PORCELAIN TWOHANDLED ORNITHOLOGICAL WINE-COOLERS (Vogeldekor), gilt and painted in colours after Frankenthal and Sèvres examples, with a vignette surmounted by a bird perched on branches to the front and to the back, the border with turquoise trelliswork (türkisfarbenem Mosaikrand) and rectangular panels with rocailles containing Deutsche Blumen (goldgerahmten Blumenkartuschen) the base pinched, both handles modelled as an applied double leaf (one restored and damaged), both marked with underglaze blue six-spoked wheel, 1770's

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A PAIR OF HOCHST PORCELAIN TWOHANDLED ORNITHOLOGICAL WINE-COOLERS (Vogeldekor), gilt and painted in colours after Frankenthal and Sèvres examples, with a vignette surmounted by a bird perched on branches to the front and to the back, the border with turquoise trelliswork (türkisfarbenem Mosaikrand) and rectangular panels with rocailles containing Deutsche Blumen (goldgerahmten Blumenkartuschen) the base pinched, both handles modelled as an applied double leaf (one restored and damaged), both marked with underglaze blue six-spoked wheel, 1770's
15 cm high, 16 cm diam. (without handles) (2)

Lot Essay

In 1760, the Elector of the Palatinate, Carl-Theodor (Kurfürst von der Pfalz) received an extensive Sèvres porcelain service of King Louis XV. He was very impressed and ordered a similar service from the Frankenthal porcelain factories in the 1770's. These Frankenthal- inspired Höchst examples can be dated around the 1770's.

cf. Catalogue Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Porzellan, ill. 251 and ill. 252 for Frankenthal examples.
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