Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 24th February 2015
Lot 233
A small Furstenberg portrait plaque of Pittacus c.1775
Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £250
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Description
A small Furstenberg portrait plaque of Pittacus c.1775, the centre oval applied with a finely modelled biscuit profile portrait of the sage, titled in gilt on the glazed border, the top applied with laurel swags, gilt F mark, incised F. Pittacus No. 2, 8cm.
Pittacus of Mytilene was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, governing his city for ten years and introducing laws in poetry, including, "A crime committed by a person when drunk should receive double the punishment which it would merit if the offender were sober".