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Lot 784 Dα

A rare faience fuddling cup

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)

A rare faience fuddling cup

With "swamp flower" motifs. Unmarked. Restored, glaze chips. Mounted with three pewter covers and bases, one lid engraved with maker's mark. H with covers 12 cm.
Hanau or Frankfurt, early 18th C.

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse.

Literature

Cf. Piereth/Ulrichs, Museum deutscher Fayencen in Schloss Höchstädt, Munich 2010, p. 14, an identical example without pewter mountings.

Cf. Brattig/Hesse (eds.), Der schöne Schein, Heidelberg-Berlin-Cologne 2013, cat. no. 22.