A FÜRSTENBERG GADROONED OVIFORM VASE AND COVER with angular gilt-edged handles and finial, the shoulder moulded and gilt with a band of quatrefoils suspending two gilt circular laurel-wreath cartouches painted with ducks and chickens in river landscapes, the lower part with radiating gilt foliage and gadroons on a spreading circular foot moulded with gilt swags and a band of laurel (minute chip to rim and cover and very slight rubbing to gilding), blue F mark, indistinct incised mark, circa 1785 | Christie's

Lot 579

579

A FÜRSTENBERG GADROONED OVIFORM VASE AND COVER with angular gilt-edged handles and finial, the shoulder moulded and gilt with a band of quatrefoils suspending two gilt circular laurel-wreath cartouches painted with ducks and chickens in river landscapes, the lower part with radiating gilt foliage and gadroons on a spreading circular foot moulded with gilt swags and a band of laurel (minute chip to rim and cover and very slight rubbing to gilding), blue F mark, indistinct incised mark, circa 1785

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A FÜRSTENBERG GADROONED OVIFORM VASE AND COVER with angular gilt-edged handles and finial, the shoulder moulded and gilt with a band of quatrefoils suspending two gilt circular laurel-wreath cartouches painted with ducks and chickens in river landscapes, the lower part with radiating gilt foliage and gadroons on a spreading circular foot moulded with gilt swags and a band of laurel (minute chip to rim and cover and very slight rubbing to gilding), blue F mark, indistinct incised mark, circa 1785
39.5cm. high

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan, p. 270, no. 324 for a similar example in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

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