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Lot 108 Dα

Two Berlin faience flasks with bird motifs

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result: 1.625 € (incl. premium)

Two Berlin faience flasks with bird motifs

Two ribbed vases with angular waists on octagonal bases. Decorated throughout with bird-on-rock motifs. Unmarked. Minimal rim chips. H 27.6 and 28.2 cm.
Manufactory of Gerhard Wolbeer, early 18th C.

Provenance

Leo Spik Berlin auction 565, June 1993, lot 962.
Lower Saxon private collection, acquired in 1994 from Kunsthandel Klewer, Berlin.

Literature

A pair of these rare vases from the former collection of Dr. Heiland (in: v. Falke, Altberliner Fayencen, Berlin 1923, illus. 14 b).