Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023
Lot 530
A rare Nuremberg faïence metal-mounted jar
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2000
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Description
A rare Nuremberg faïence metal-mounted jar, c.1720, reduced from a ewer, the spiral moulded form painted by Justus Alexander Ernest Glüer with figures holding children beneath a tall tree, in a panel flanked by putti holding cornucopia, large flowering branches extended over the rest of the body, signed 'Glüer Nu nberg' to the front, the screw-fit pewter lid mounted with a cherub finial, the handle lacking and neck reduced, 25.3cm. (2)
Provenance: purchased from Max Rosenheim in August 1894 and thence by descent. By repute, previously in a schloss in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, occupied by Otto von Bismarck.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Accession No. 1991.149.11 for a similar complete ewer.