A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle - image-1

Lot 128 Dα

A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 2.500 € (incl. premium)

A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle

Decorated with a crowned eagle holding the sceptre and imperial orb with the conjoined monogram FR on its chest. With cracks. Lid marked and dated 1747, the rim and basal ring of pewter, H with thumbrest 24.6 cm.
Manufactory of Cornelius Funcke's heirs, after 1740, the pewter mountings Freiberg, Johann Christian Böhme the Elder.

Provenance

Kunsthandel Klewer, Berlin.
Lower Saxon private collection.

Literature

An identical tankard in: v. Falke, Altberliner Fayencen, Berlin 1923, illus. 42 d.
For more information on the pewter see: Hintze, Sächsische Zinngießer, vol. I, Aalen 1964, no. 551.