A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask - image-1
A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask - image-2
A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask - image-1A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask - image-2

Lot 1720 Dα

A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €

A Meissen Böttger stonware baboon mask

Incised crossed swords mark with dot, incised model no.A1047, L.237, 136, No. 11, stamped BÖTTGER-STEINZEUG. Restored in Meissen in 1999. With closed and retouched firing cracks. H c. 34, W c. 46 cm.
Model by Max Esser, 1923, produced before 1933.

Provenance

In family ownership since production.

Literature

A further example in the sculpture collection of the SKD, inv. no. ZV 2942, produced after 1934.
For more on Esser see Marusch-Krohn, Meissener Porzellan 1918 - 1933. Die Pfeifferzeit, Leipzig 1993, p. 105 ff.