A pair of small Ignaz Preissler-type Silesian cut-glass Schwarzlot Hausmalerei silver-mounted royal armorial flagons

CIRCA 1735, POSSIBLY DECORATED IN THE NETHERLANDS: DORDRECHT OR DELFT

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A pair of small Ignaz Preissler-type Silesian cut-glass Schwarzlot Hausmalerei silver-mounted royal armorial flagons
Circa 1735, possibly decorated in the Netherlands: Dordrecht or Delft
The thirteen-sided mallet-shaped body with black overglaze decoration depicting the frontal crowned coat-of-arms of Stadholder Prince Willem IV (1711-1751) encircled by the Order of the Garter, inscribed with Honi Soit qui mal y pense and flanked by lion supporters upon a scrolled bracket within a tied laurel wreath, the reverse with scrolling foliage, with upright neck, the border with a lozenge-shaped tiny ring, and on tiny dented silver-mounted foot
13cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

c.f. A. Müller-Hofstede, Der Schlesische-Böhmische Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler, Keramos, 1983, pp. 3-50, for a detailed discussion about Preissler
This technique of monochrome decoration is usually associated with towns in Germany, Breslau (Silesia) and Nürnberg (Bavaria). However, decorators in the Dutch towns of Dordrecht and Delft also painted in the Schwarzlot technique

Prince Willem IV was elected Stadholder of Zeeland, Utrecht and Overijssel in 1747. He married the english Princess Anne of Hanover in 1734. These flagons are therefore referring to the Order of the Garter (Orde van de Jarretel).

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