A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE SAKE-BOTTLE of tapering square section, the sides alternately applied in high relief with faun's masks flanked by scrolls and strapwork and with loose bouquets, the neck with a band of pendant stiff leaves, on a stepped square foot, circa 1715

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A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE SAKE-BOTTLE of tapering square section, the sides alternately applied in high relief with faun's masks flanked by scrolls and strapwork and with loose bouquets, the neck with a band of pendant stiff leaves, on a stepped square foot, circa 1715
20cm. high
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's New York, 17 December 1982, lot 236
Exhibited
Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 1

Lot Essay

Cf. Goder et al., colour frontispiece, no. 4 for a plain example and ibid., pl. 67 for three white porcelain examples, one having identical reliefs with traces of gilt decoration; see also a white porcelain example with identical reliefs, sold Christie's Geneva, 12 May 1986, lot 297 and a similar pair sold in these Rooms, 6 April 1981, lot 116

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