A GERMAN FAYENCE BLUE AND WHITE HELMET-SHAPED EWER with a bearded mask lip and shaped ribbed handle, painted with figures and buildings in a continuous landscape above a band of interlocking scrolls, the spreading foot with stylised flowers and foliage (end of lip a restored replacement, restored chips to rims and two cracks), blue F mark, , circa 1730, probably Berlin, Funcke's factory | Christie's

Lot 423

423

A GERMAN FAYENCE BLUE AND WHITE HELMET-SHAPED EWER with a bearded mask lip and shaped ribbed handle, painted with figures and buildings in a continuous landscape above a band of interlocking scrolls, the spreading foot with stylised flowers and foliage (end of lip a restored replacement, restored chips to rims and two cracks), blue F mark, , circa 1730, probably Berlin, Funcke's factory

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A GERMAN FAYENCE BLUE AND WHITE HELMET-SHAPED EWER with a bearded mask lip and shaped ribbed handle, painted with figures and buildings in a continuous landscape above a band of interlocking scrolls, the spreading foot with stylised flowers and foliage (end of lip a restored replacement, restored chips to rims and two cracks), blue F mark, , circa 1730, probably Berlin, Funcke's factory
21.5cm. high

Lot Essay

This piece has close similarities to the example with a different handle illustrated by Eduard Fuchs and Paul Heiland, Die Deutsche Fayence Kultur, pl. 24 and those given to Wolbeer Factory ??

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