A rare Nuremberg faience hexagonal flask circa 1730

painted in blue on a pale-blue ground with arched panels of buildings in landscape settings, alternating with flowers issuing from rockwork, the shoulder with a foliate border and the rims with scale borders

With Sigmund Seligsberger, Würzburg;
Purchased from the above in July 1926

Kunstindustrimuseet i Oslo, Utstilling av Gamle Tyske Fajanser, April 1932, no.131

Gamle Tyske Fajanser, exhibition catalogue, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo 1932, cat.no.131

An almost identical flask also marked HE, formerly in the collection of Dr. Paul Heiland and now in the Fembohaus Museum in Nuremberg, is illustrated by I.Hebecker, 'Nuremberg faïence', in Connoisseur, September 1978, pp.193-201, ill.5b. A flask of the same form, painted by Grebner and dated 1722, was in the Igo Levi Collection (sold by Weinmüller in Munich, 11th and 12th April 1962, lot 179). A small vase painted by the same painter, HE, is in the Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf (illustrated by A. Klein, Deutsche Fayencen im Hetjens-Museum, no.337).