Lot Essay
See anon. sale, Christie's, New York 18 & 19 December 2001, lot 444 and anon. sale, Christie's, New York 14 October 1999, lot 99 for other TH monogrammed examples.
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DATED 1878, GILT UPPERCASE MARK, TH MONOGRAM AND INTIALS S.L. TO THE UNDERSIDE
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A RÖRSTRAND FAIENCE ENAMELLED ARMORIAL BLACK-GROUND GRANDE COUPE
DATED 1878, GILT UPPERCASE MARK, TH MONOGRAM AND INTIALS S.L. TO THE UNDERSIDE
Of tazza form, the bowl exterior enamelled in white with a continuous Renaissance military view interrupted by a crested shield and portrait of Charles VIII of Sweden within berried laurel, the reverse with the Swedish Royal coat-of-arms, the underside enriched with alternating single flowers and stiff leaf-tips, the socle with entwined oak and berried vine, on a circular foot, the rims with moulded bands of anthemion and guilloche
22½ in. (57.2 cm.) diameter
DATED 1878, GILT UPPERCASE MARK, TH MONOGRAM AND INTIALS S.L. TO THE UNDERSIDE
Of tazza form, the bowl exterior enamelled in white with a continuous Renaissance military view interrupted by a crested shield and portrait of Charles VIII of Sweden within berried laurel, the reverse with the Swedish Royal coat-of-arms, the underside enriched with alternating single flowers and stiff leaf-tips, the socle with entwined oak and berried vine, on a circular foot, the rims with moulded bands of anthemion and guilloche
22½ in. (57.2 cm.) diameter