Lot 1542 D α

A Nuremberg faience tureen with landscape and fruit motifs

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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A Nuremberg faience tureen with landscape and fruit motifs

Of rounded, scalloped design. Decorated with alternating landscape and dish motifs, lambrequins, flowers and tendrils. Blue B mark (tureen) and illegible blue mark and “ad 76” in black (lid). With a crack running almost through the entire lower section and minor chips around the base. H with lid 18, D 15 cm.
Nuremberg, the décor attributed to Johann Valentin Bontemps, 1730s.

Provenance

Senger art dealers, Bamberg.
South German private collection.

Literature

Cf. a similar shape of tureen in cat. Bayreuther Fayencen. Sammlung Burkhardt, Bayreuth 2006, cat. no. 157.
Cf. also cat. Der schöne Schein. Deutsche Fayencekunst, Berlin - Cologne 2013, cat. no. 81, p. 234.
Cf. Glaser, Nürnberger Fayencen. Geschichte und Erzeugnisse einer Manufaktur in der Reichsstadt, Nuremberg 2017, no. 210.