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Lot 947 Dα

A faience pitcher decorated by Abraham Helmhack

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 12.500 € (incl. premium)
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A faience pitcher decorated by Abraham Helmhack

Decorated with a depiction of Rebecca and Eliezer en camaieu. The neck with a winged angel's head with a halo. The sides each with flowering acanthus tendrils. Monogrammed AH below the cartouche. Unmarked unglazed base. The lip restored. H 28.7 cm.
The faience Hanau, after 1661, decor by Abraham Helmhack, Nuremberg, c. 1690 - 1700.

Provenance

Collection of R. von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt.
Collection of Ole Olsen, Hellerup neari Copenhagen, auctioned by Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen, November 1972, lot 100.
Auctioned by Weinmüller Munich, March 1973, lot 220.
Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

Illus. in: Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Leipzig 1925/Reprint Stuttgart 1971, illus. 30.
Illus. in: Bosch, Die Nürnberger Hausmaler, Munich 1984, no. 175. The winged angel's head derives from a series of ornamental engravings by Helmhack illus. on p. 513.
A similarly decorated baluster form pitcher, also with Rebecca and Eliezer, in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, inv. no. E 597 (cat. Der schöne Schein, Berlin-Cologne 2013, no. 33).