Two German fayence white animal-form butter tubs and covers second half 18th century

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

pottery
lengths 7 1/8 in. and 7 in.
18 cm and 17.8 cm

comprising: a Glienitz butter tub in the form of a recumbent deer and a Dorotheenthal butter tub in the form of a recumbent sheep, the first with G.F. mark in blue, the second with plus mark in blue.

Catalogue Note

A Dorotheenthal faïence sheep box and cover similarly modelled to the present example and painted around the neck and tail with flowers is illustrated by Eduard Fuchs and Paul Heiland in Die Deutsche Fayence-Kultur, p. 160, cat no. 101 b, where the authors date it to circa 1755.