Lot Essay
See Helmut Scherf, Thüringer Porzellan (Leipzig, 1980), no. 121 for a chinoiserie coffee-pot of similar form, and no. 118 for a thread-stand with a similar border.
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CIRCA 1770-75, UNDERGLAZE BLUE CV MONOGRAM, SIGNED STOCKMAR IN PUCE
Details
A KLOSTER VEILSDORF BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1770-75, UNDERGLAZE BLUE CV MONOGRAM, SIGNED Stockmar IN PUCE
Painted by Stockmar with two equestrian scenes of figures a in landscape, the cover with lesser landscape vignettes, within puce mosaic-pattern borders edged with gilt scrolls, the scroll handle, bud finial and scroll-moulded spout richly-gilt (faint hairline cracks around finial, a faint crack extending from a firing fault to lower handle terminal, slight rubbing to gilding)
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770-75, UNDERGLAZE BLUE CV MONOGRAM, SIGNED Stockmar IN PUCE
Painted by Stockmar with two equestrian scenes of figures a in landscape, the cover with lesser landscape vignettes, within puce mosaic-pattern borders edged with gilt scrolls, the scroll handle, bud finial and scroll-moulded spout richly-gilt (faint hairline cracks around finial, a faint crack extending from a firing fault to lower handle terminal, slight rubbing to gilding)
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high
Provenance
With René Simmermacher, Zürich, from whom it was acquired on 19th June 2002
Anon., sale Metz Heidelberg, 20th 0ctober 2001, lot 725.
Anon., sale Metz Heidelberg, 20th 0ctober 2001, lot 725.
Special notice
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