A Crailsheim faience tankard with a hunter - image-1

Lot 895 Dα

A Crailsheim faience tankard with a hunter

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 500 € - 800 €
Result: 4.000 € (incl. premium)

A Crailsheim faience tankard with a hunter

Depicting a hunter with a gun in a large rocaille cartouche. Unmarked. The handle replaced in pewter. Pewter mountings, the marks presumably Wroclaw, the lid engraved "JW 1777". H with thumbrest 24 cm.
Johann Georg Weiß sen. period, c. 1760.

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Saxony.

Literature

An identical hunting tankard in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, inv. no. E 2722cl. (Cat.: Der schöne Schein, Berlin-Cologne 2013, no. 93).