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TWO GERMAN FAYENCE WHITE ANIMAL-FORM BUTTER TUBS AND COVERS SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- pottery
- lengths 7 1/8 in. and 7 in.
- 18 cm and 17.8 cm
comprising: a Glienitz butter tub in the form of a recumbent deer and a Dorotheenthal butter tub in the form of a recumbent sheep, the first with G.F. mark in blue, the second with plus mark in blue.
Catalogue Note
A Dorotheenthal faïence sheep box and cover similarly modelled to the present example and painted around the neck and tail with flowers is illustrated in Eduard Fuchs and Paul Heiland, Die Deutsche Fayence-Kultur, p. 160, cat no. 101 b, where the authors date it to circa 1755.