A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle - image-1
A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle - image-2
A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle - image-1A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle - image-2

Lot 129 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: 4.000 € (incl. premium)

A Berlin faience tankard with the Prussian eagle

Decorated with a crowned eagle holding the imperial orb and with the conjoined monogram FR on its chest flanked by swags and trellis. Manganese mark 3. The interior with severe craquelure, the tin base lost. The hinged marked lid and rim of pewter, H with thumbrest 24.5 cm.
Manufactory of Cornelius Funcke Erben, circa / after 1740.

Provenance

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

Literature

Illus. in: Schwarze, Alte deutsche Fayence-Krüge, Wuppertal 1980, p. 155.