A NORTH BOHEMIAN (KRONSTADT) 'HAUSMALER' FLASK, the companion to the preceding lot and of similar form, painted by Ignaz Preissler in Schwarzlot, Eisenrot and sepia enamels with the gathering of a grape harvest taken from an engraving by Raphael Sadeler after Jacopo Bassano, with oxen pulling a laden cart, a man picking grapes and peasant men and women variously occupied with wine-making, in a landscape with buildings in the distance, the reverse with a view of Pfalz im Rhein bei Caub, beneath an arch-cut band, the shoulder and the base with a multitude of butterflies, insects and a caterpillar (extended crack through lower part of bottle and base), 1720-1730

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A NORTH BOHEMIAN (KRONSTADT) 'HAUSMALER' FLASK, the companion to the preceding lot and of similar form, painted by Ignaz Preissler in Schwarzlot, Eisenrot and sepia enamels with the gathering of a grape harvest taken from an engraving by Raphael Sadeler after Jacopo Bassano, with oxen pulling a laden cart, a man picking grapes and peasant men and women variously occupied with wine-making, in a landscape with buildings in the distance, the reverse with a view of Pfalz im Rhein bei Caub, beneath an arch-cut band, the shoulder and the base with a multitude of butterflies, insects and a caterpillar (extended crack through lower part of bottle and base), 1720-1730
17.5cm. high

Lot Essay

The decoration of this flask is almost identical to one of the lost Berlin flasks, see Gustav E. Pazaurek, op. cit., pl. 12, although Preissler would appear to have used two different print sources for the view of Pfalz im Rhein bei Caub

See also the footnote to the preceding lot

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