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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.