A VOLKSTEDT BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER , CIRCA 1770, INCISED S MARK | Christie's

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European Ceramics and Glass Including the Property of a Collector

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31 March 2008

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Lot 217

A VOLKSTEDT BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1770, INCISED S MARK

Price realised

GBP 8,125

Estimate

GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

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A VOLKSTEDT BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1770, INCISED S MARK
Painted with a huntsman and companion picnicing by a stylised rococo hollow tree-stump, the reverse with a gentleman strolling before a rococo stylised tree-trunk in parkland, with a double scroll-handle and scroll-moulded spout, the domed cover with a hound and a stag below a flower finial, gilt line rims (cover restored to rim and stem of flower, finial cracked and restuck with some slight chipping to petals, restoration to spout and section of rim above spout, retouching to gilding, very minor footrim chipping, some slight scratching to enamels and wear to gilding)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 7th October 1996, lot 343
Anon., sale Metz Heidelberg, 10th October 1998, lot 49.
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Literature and exhibited

Literature

Volkstedter Porzellan, 1760-1800, Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt, Exhibition Catalogue (1999), p. 165, cat. no 81.

Lot Essay

The scene of a huntsman and companion is taken from the engraving 'L'Automne Der Herbst' by J.E. Nilson, illustrated above. For a Fulda group derived from the same print, see Ernst Kramer, 'Kupferstiche von Johann Esaias Nilson für Den Fuldaer Fürstbischof', Keramos 1966, No. 35, pp. 21-48, fig. 5.

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