Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A RARE BÖTTGER POLISHED RED-STONEWARE OCTAGONAL SUGAR BOX AND COVER CIRCA 1710-15
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A RARE BÖTTGER POLISHED RED-STONEWARE OCTAGONAL SUGAR BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1710-15
of canted rectangular form, with broad beveled edges, picked out with traces of gilding, the cover surmounted with a high hexagonal pagoda knop, impressed Dreher's mark of an X for George Kittel
width 4½ in.
11.5 cm
The form is listed in the 1711 inventory of the Meissen factory: '8 Bassige Zucker Büchße'. An example with gilding was sold at Sotheby's, London, February 24, 2015, lot 234; and a further sugar box with gilding was among the stoneware teawares from the Collection of the Dukes of Baden, sold at Sotheby's, Baden-Baden, October 18, 1995, lots 1251-1258. Another example un-gilded is in the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Dresden, inventory number P.E.1716, and is illustrated in Goder, et. al, Johann Friedrich Böttger. Die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, Leipzig, 1982, p. 186, fig. 122.
George Kittel is listed in the 1712 Meissen list of potters, and again in 1732 as a molder (as noted from Robert E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, Atglen, 1996, p. 258.)