A Höchst porcelain spice cruet with an allegory of summer - image-1

Lot 661 Dα

A Höchst porcelain spice cruet with an allegory of summer

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €
Bid

A Höchst porcelain spice cruet with an allegory of summer

Hollow glazed base with iron red wheel mark, impressed mark IE. Firing cracks, one finger and the ears of wheat broken, older restorations to the tips of two fingers. H 14.5 cm.
Model by Johann Gottfried Becker, around 1750 - 55.

Provenance

Former Hartig art dealership, Berlin.
From the estate of the descendants.

Literature

Cf. Stahl/Ohlig, Höchster Porzellan 1746 – 1796, Frankfurt 1994, cat. 5.2.7. fir ibe if the four vessels from the great Höchst centrepiece.