A rare Braunschweig faience dish circa 1760

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 GBP

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Description

B in manganese
37.3cm., 14 5/8 in.

finely painted with a polychrome landscape vignette of a seated Oriental holding a fan with a basket of fruit to one side, to the rear a large vase with fruiting tree, a bird overhead and fruiting sprigs and leaves around the rim

Provenance

Dr. Paul Heiland Collection, Potsdam

Exhibited

Bavarian National Museum, Munich, Süddeutsche und mitteldeutsche Fayencen: Vermächtnis Dr. Paul Heiland, July to October 1934, no.781

Literature

H.Rupé (pub.), Katalog süddeutscher und mitteldeutscher Fayencen aus dem Vermächtnis Dr. Paul Heiland, exhibition catalogue, Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1934, cat.no.781