Lot 41
  • 41

A rare Durlach faience inkstand circa 1770

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • I in black
  • 15cm., 6in. across
modelled as a chest of drawers, the drawers on either side painted in manganese and washed in green with the lock plates and handles picked out in yellow, the sides with Chinese figures beneath palm trees, on four green bun feet, the top painted with flowers, inset with a caster and an ink pot and with two small apertures

Exhibited

Kunstindustrimuseet i Oslo, Utstilling av Gamle Tyske Fajanser, April 1932, no.209

Literature

Gamle Tyske Fajanser, exhibition catalogue, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo 1932, cat.no.209

Catalogue Note

A similar model in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, is illustrated by R.Stratmann-Döhler, Durlacher Fayencen, no.14.