A Frankfurt or Dutch Delft dish circa 1700

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

painted inventory number 32/862 in red
34.5cm., 13 5/8 in.

painted in blue depicting Fortuna standing on a shell holding aloft a sail, with dolphins and sailing boats in the distance, the rim with similar panels depicting a mermaid

Provenance

Dr. Paul Heiland Collection, Potsdam

Exhibited

Bavarian National Museum, Munich, Süddeutsche und mitteldeutsche Fayencen, July to October 1932, no.65

Literature

H.Rupé, Katalog süddeutscher und mitteldeutscher Fayencen aus dem Vermächtnis Dr. Paul Heiland, Munich 1934, cat.no.65

Catalogue Note

For a discussion of a group of similar pieces by the same painter, see A.Feulner, Frankfurter Fayencen, pp.86f., and ill.208 for a related example.