A Hanau blue and white salt

CIRCA 1720

Details
A Hanau blue and white salt
Circa 1720
Of dumbbell form, the top circular depression painted with pears and grapes within a zig-zag border, on a short cylindrical stem and domed base painted with flowering plants, on three ball feet (slight rubbing and glaze flaking to rims)
5in. (12.5cm.) high
Provenance
Riesebieter Collection, no. 744.
Literature
Otto Reisebieter, Die Deutschen Fayencen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (1921), p. 21, fig. 10.

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