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Lot 11

An Ansbach faience rectangular dish, circa 1725

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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An Ansbach faience rectangular dish, circa 1725

Decorated in blue after a Chinese export charger, depicting a Chinese pagoda behind a walled garden, several specimens of Asian trees and a multi story pagoda in the foreground, all under a pie-crust rim with cartouches of birds on branches and geometric fields set with single peonies, 39.5cm diam.

Footnotes

A dish of identical shape and decoration in the famed polychrome 'Ansbach Grüne Famille' colours in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is illustrated in Adolf Bayer, Die Ansbacher Fayence-Fabriken (1959), plate 115. Another dish of the same size with near-identical decoration in blue and white in the Hetjens-Museum in Duesseldorf is published in Adalbert Klein, Deutsche Fayencen (1975), plate 243, as Strassburg.

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