AFTER A DESIGN BY MAX ESSER, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN MEISSEN STONEWARE 'FERNINAND THE BULL' CHESS SET
AFTER A DESIGN BY MAX ESSER, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY
The pieces incised with crossed swords mark, and impresed BOTTGER STEINZEUG with serial numbers to the undersides
The king -- 4in. (10.2cm.) high; the pawn -- 2in. (5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Max Esser (1885-1945), a Grand Prix winner of the Exposition International in 1937, for his porcelain sculptor Fish Otter, was a freelance modeller at the Meissen factory from 1920, where he worked in both porcelain and the revived Böttgersteinzeug, a fine grained stoneware based on the 18th century original. This set expresses Esser's individual synthesis of the Rococo Revival and Art Deco styles.

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