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拍品专文
Böttger's newly invented stoneware could be decorated with techniques such as polishing, faceting, incising, and engraving that had never before been possible on ceramic wares. Meissen employed glass or stone cutters and polishers from Bohemia to work on its stoneware vessels, principally from 1710-12. Adam Heinrich Blumenthal went to Bohemia to recruit the craftsmen, and in February 1710 engaged the polisher Samuel Hölzel, his two sons and 27 other glass engravers and polishers. By the time Böttger's grinding mill at Weisseritz was completed in 1713, interest in stoneware was waning as porcelain had become more sought after. Consequently by 1712 only four glass workers remained at Meissen. Pieces such as this tankard were amongst the earliest products of the Meissen porcelain manufactory and were exhibited as early as 1710 at the Leipzig Easter fair.
See Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo's article, 'Lidded Tankards from Böttger Stoneware', From Invention to Perfection, Stuttgart, 2016, pp. 28-33, where the author identifies the two incised heraldic elements as a frying pan and a handle (arranged in a cross below a six-pointed star), and suggests that we can assume the device to be a canting coat of arms belonging to the Pfannenstiel ('pan-handle') family of Weiden, and more specifically to Philipp Caspar Pfannenstiel. Pfannenstiel was born in Weiden in 1664 and was active as a lawyer in Nuremberg, Hof, and Kulmbach. In 1710, he was given the titles of Imperial Court Councillor and Count of the Palatinate, and was made an active Court Councillor of Bamberg and legal advisor to the Guild of Franconian Knights. Pfannenstiel died in 1735 in Nuremberg. Andres-Acevedo has also compared the cartouche surround to another of almost identical form on a tankard in the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig, and suggests it was derived from the kind of contemporary ornament engravings found, for example, in the series Groteschgen Werk vor Mahler Goldschmidte Stucato inventirt durch Paulus Decker Architectum, engraved by Lorenz Beger (1663–1735) and published by Johann Christoph Weigel the Younger (1661–1726). See Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, ibid., Stuttgart, 2016, figs. 11 (an etching of the Pfannestiel coat of arms), 12 (Portrait of Philipp Caspar Pfannenstiel, engraving by Johann Wilhelm Windter) and 10 (etching “no. 3” from the series Groteschgen Werk von Mahler Goldschmidte Stucato inventirt durch Paulus Decker Architectum by Lorenz Beger).
See Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo's article, 'Lidded Tankards from Böttger Stoneware', From Invention to Perfection, Stuttgart, 2016, pp. 28-33, where the author identifies the two incised heraldic elements as a frying pan and a handle (arranged in a cross below a six-pointed star), and suggests that we can assume the device to be a canting coat of arms belonging to the Pfannenstiel ('pan-handle') family of Weiden, and more specifically to Philipp Caspar Pfannenstiel. Pfannenstiel was born in Weiden in 1664 and was active as a lawyer in Nuremberg, Hof, and Kulmbach. In 1710, he was given the titles of Imperial Court Councillor and Count of the Palatinate, and was made an active Court Councillor of Bamberg and legal advisor to the Guild of Franconian Knights. Pfannenstiel died in 1735 in Nuremberg. Andres-Acevedo has also compared the cartouche surround to another of almost identical form on a tankard in the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig, and suggests it was derived from the kind of contemporary ornament engravings found, for example, in the series Groteschgen Werk vor Mahler Goldschmidte Stucato inventirt durch Paulus Decker Architectum, engraved by Lorenz Beger (1663–1735) and published by Johann Christoph Weigel the Younger (1661–1726). See Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, ibid., Stuttgart, 2016, figs. 11 (an etching of the Pfannestiel coat of arms), 12 (Portrait of Philipp Caspar Pfannenstiel, engraving by Johann Wilhelm Windter) and 10 (etching “no. 3” from the series Groteschgen Werk von Mahler Goldschmidte Stucato inventirt durch Paulus Decker Architectum by Lorenz Beger).