A PAIR OF HÖCHST TWO-HANDLED FLUTED SEAUX painted in petit feu colours with stylised Oriental flowers including peony and with flower-sprays, the handles enriched in yellow and green (repaired and restored rim and footrim chips, slight chips to handles and one handle repaired, bases drilled and one rim cracked), one with black wheel mark, painter's W for Johann Christoph Walther, , circa 1750

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A PAIR OF HÖCHST TWO-HANDLED FLUTED SEAUX painted in petit feu colours with stylised Oriental flowers including peony and with flower-sprays, the handles enriched in yellow and green (repaired and restored rim and footrim chips, slight chips to handles and one handle repaired, bases drilled and one rim cracked), one with black wheel mark, painter's W for Johann Christoph Walther, , circa 1750
18cm. high (2)

Literature

Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur Höchst Fayencen, no. 193 for one
Horst Reber, 'Höchster Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts aus Privatbestiz', Katalog der Ausstellung in der Jahrhunderthall Hoechst, 9 Dezember 1984-9. Januar 1985, pl. 23
Karl Schafft, 'Gleiche Dekors bei Verschiedenen Manufakturen', Keramos, September 1974, p. 32, no. 3b

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Kassel, see Adalbert Klein, op. cit., p. 312, nos. 329/330

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