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A Tournai porcelain teapot and milk jug with fable motifs after Jean de La Fontaine

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
Result: 2.394 € (incl. premium)
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A Tournai porcelain teapot and milk jug with fable motifs after Jean de La Fontaine

Rare model with branch handles picked out in gold and original lid. Finely painted decor. Gold tower mark. A circular crack to the base of the teapot, firing cracks. H teapot 12, H milk jug 13.1 cm.
Around 1760 - 70.

Literature

Cf. Deroubaix, Les porcelaines de Tournai du Musée de Mariemont, Mariemont 1958, cat. no. 353 f., cups and saucers with motifs after La Fontaine, but with rocaille handles.
An identical milk jug with lid auctioned by Sotheby's Paris 9th April 2008, lot 15 (hammer price € 24,250).
The same teapot model in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, acc. no. C.273&A-1940.