CIRCA 1770, BLUE CROSSED PITCHFORK MARKS

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A VOLKSTEDT DEJEUNER
CIRCA 1770, BLUE CROSSED PITCHFORK MARKS
Painted after Watteau with Commedia dell'Arte figures including Columbine, Scaramouche and Mezzetin in landscape vignettes, comprising: A teapot and cover with a wishbone handle and a leaf-moulded spout (slight chipping to finial)
A hot-milk jug and cover with a wishbone handle, the spout moulded with gadroons (chip to inside rim of cover)
A baluster tea-caddy and cover (cover restored to rim)
A teacup and saucer (cup broken and restored)
A high-sided square tray moulded with cartouches enriched in gilding (restoration to one corner)
(some minor wear to gilding throughout)
The tray 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide (9)

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Lot Essay

The engraving used for Columbine and Scapin on the hot-milk jug is illustrated here. See page 8 for another engraving after Watteau which was used for the decoration of the tray, and see Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphik, Brunswick, 1973, p. 160, nos. 246 and 248 for the engraving after Watteau used for Columbine and Mezzetin dancing on the teapot.

For a déjeuner of similar form with different decoration in the Angermuseum, Erfurt, see Horst Fleischer et al., Exhibition Catalogue 225 Jahre Porzellan aus Volkstedt, Rudolstadt, 1989, p. 20, no. 6.

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