THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, MARKED HL ABOVE 14 ON THE BASE AND HL ON THE COVER

Details

A German fayence butter-tub and cover
Third quarter 18th Century, marked HL above 14 on the base and HL on the cover
Modelled as a tortoise, with head protruding forwards from underneath the moulded domed shell decorated with yellow and white spots on a manganese red ground, minor glaze frits
16 cm. long

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Lot Essay

For a related Schrezheim example in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, see Margrit Bauer, Europäische Fayencen (Frankfurt, 1977), p. 166, no. 316, and for related Höchst examples see Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur Höchst (Munich, 1986), Vol. II, pp. 70-71, figs. 49-52.

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