A rare pair of Künersberg faience plaques with allegories of summer and autumn - image-1

Lot 985 Dα

A rare pair of Künersberg faience plaques with allegories of summer and autumn

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 14:00 - Porcelain
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 16.380 € (incl. premium)

A rare pair of Künersberg faience plaques with allegories of summer and autumn

Square panels, the moulded rims painted with insects. Each with two polished and fired hanging holes. The summer with a diagonal crack, minor glaze chips to the surrounds. 17.5 x 17.5 and 17.8 x 17.8 cm.
Unmarked, Künersberg, 1745 - 1765.

Provenance

Ulrich Seiler Collection (died 1947), Cologne.
Auctioned by Weinmüller Munich on March 14, 1973, lot 126.
Austrian private collection.

Literature

Illustrated in cat. Kölner Fayence-Sammler stellen aus zum 50-jährigen Bestehen des Kunstgewerbemuseums, Cologne 1938, no. 199 f., pl. 50.

In Fröschner, Künersberger Fayencen, p. 315, nos. 458 and 459, without illustrations.

Cf. Hüseler, Deutsche Fayencen. Ein Handbuch der Fabriken ihrer Meister und Werke, vol. I, Stuttgart 1956, fig. 200, pl. 108.

Exhibitions

Fayence-Ausstellung Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne 1938.