A pair of Fürstenberg oval two-handled tureens, covers and stands from the dinner-service of Carl I, Duke of Brunswick
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A pair of Fürstenberg oval two-handled tureens, covers and stands from the dinner-service of Carl I, Duke of Brunswick

CIRCA 1765, BLUE SCRIPT F MARKS, ONE TUREEN AND STAND WITH INCISED F: 61, THE OTHER WITH INCISED F

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A pair of Fürstenberg oval two-handled tureens, covers and stands from the dinner-service of Carl I, Duke of Brunswick
Circa 1765, blue script F marks, one tureen and stand with incised F: 61, the other with incised F
The tureens and stands with rococo scroll-moulded handles enriched with pale-green and gilding, each tureen painted with two bouquets and two views named on the underside in puce Kirche zu Küssenbrück., gegend zu Heuersdorf., Vor Luckeln. and Klein Fahlberg mit der Asse. within shaped rectangular scroll-moulded cartouches divided by four vertical bands of moulded scale ornament terminating in scroll-moulded feet, the domed covers similarly decorated with un-named views about pear finials, the stands each with a single view named on the reverse in puce Vor Mascherode. and bei Feltenhoff. within a border moulded with four panels divided by scale ornament, gilt line rims (tureens with slight chipping to feet, one with star-crack and small rim chip, covers with chipping to rims, one finial broken off and bolted, one stand with small rim chip at 2 o'clock)
The stands 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm.) wide
Provenance
Somerely House, Hampshire.
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Lot Essay

These tureens form part of the most important dinner-service ever produced by the Fürstenberg manufactury, and the greater part of it is now in the Royal Collection. Described as 'Gravierte Tafel Service, so mit bunten Prospekten, Purpur Blumen und Girlanden mit goldenen Blaettern, incl. Staffir un Baroc: Rand Vergoldung', it cost 841 Reichsmarks 12 groschen and was delivered to the Hochfurstlich Porzellan Lager in August 1773.

From the way the costs are broken down it is clear that the various decorative elements were carried out by different artists. However the Prospekten were drawn and executed by Johann Friedrich 'Pascha' Weitsch (1723-1803). A corporal in the Brunswick forces in the Seven Years War, he was released from military service in 1758 by the Duke and joined the Fürstenberg manufactury as a colour painter, where he became the leading painter of his day. Many of his preparatory drawings still survive in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig.

The 'Gravierte' pattern was modelled by J.C. Rombrich. The '2 ditto terrinen no.1 at 21 Reichsmarks 6 Groschen' each recorded in the original invoice of 1773 with their stands at 10 Reichsmarks each clearly refers to the present lot.

For details of the service see S. Ducret, Das Fürstenberger Porzellan, Vol. II, pp. 80 seqq, and for a similar tureen in the collection of H.M. The Queen at Windsor Castle and exhibited at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster (4th December 1988 - 8th February 1989) and the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (9th March 1989 - 7th May 1989), see B. Wolf-Metternich et al., 'Weisses Gold aus Fürstenberg' Catalogue (1988), pp. 174-185, no. 52.

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