Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A RARE BÖTTGER STONEWARE SMALL TEA CANISTER CIRCA 1710-13
of hexagonal form, the sides cut and polished.
Height: 3 in.
7.6 cm
Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, sold, Sotheby's New York, November 11, 2000, lot 8
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 135, p. 368, illus.
Another example with an impressed Dreher's mark was in the Spitzner Collection, now in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inv. no. P.E.1688. A further example molded with birds perched in branches is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Gerhard Bott (ed.), Böttgersteinzeug und frühes Meißener Porzellan, Eine Ausstellung Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 1982, Nürnberg, 1982, p. 52, no. 34.