Two Berlin faience tankards commemorating two kings - image-1

Lot 125 Dα

Two Berlin faience tankards commemorating two kings

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 812 € (incl. premium)

Two Berlin faience tankards commemorating two kings

Decorated with crowned eagles holding the imperial orb, with conjoined monograms FWR and FR on the chests. The Friedrich Wilhelm I tankard with an illegible mark and a lead-filled hole in the base. With cracks. The marked hinged lids and rims of pewter, one with pewter basal ring, heights with thumbrests 23.8 and 23.3 cm.
Manufactory of Cornelius Funcke and heirs, 1730 - 40.

Provenance

Kunsthandel Klewer, Berlin and collection of Dr. Konrad Strauß, Munich.
Lower Saxon private collection.

Literature

The Friedrich II tankard illus. in: Schwarze, alte deutsche Fayence-Krüge, Wuppertal 1980, p. 156.