CIRCA 1750, CORRESPONDING BLUE 5 MARKS TO BOTH PIECES OF ONE TUREEN AND 8 TO OTHER

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A PAIR OF STRASBOURG (PAUL HANNONG) FAIENCE PIGEON-TUREENS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750, CORRESPONDING BLUE 5 MARKS TO BOTH PIECES OF ONE TUREEN AND 8 TO OTHER
Finely modelled and painted to resemble pigeons with flecked and speckled brownish grey markings to their plumage, with barred tails, pink beaks and legs, dark claws and yellow eyes with black pupils, supported by leafy branches below on green-sponged shaped rectangular mound bases, one with pink flowers, with green footrims, the covers with brown flanges (both with minute flaking and fritting to extremities, bases with a fine crack and slight chipping to foliage, left bird with one leaf restuck, short hairline crack to left foot, cover with rim chip and smaller chips, right tureen with section restuck at rim, restored rim chip and chipping to edge of base, cover with very small area of re-touching to flaking on beak tip, very slight chipping to tail and inside edge of rim, restored chipping to inside edge of rim and interior flange)
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

A single pigeon tureen of similar form from the René Fribourg Collection, New York, was sold by Sotheby's London on 15th October 1963, lot 381, and is also illustrated in the Répertoire de la Faience Française, Vol. V. pl. 25A. Another example is illustrated by Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé et al., 'faïences françaises' Exhibition Catalogue (Paris, 1980), p. 287, no. 440.

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