European Porcelain & Ceramics

Porcelain and faience have been an important part of Koller’s auctions since its founding, reflecting the long tradition of serious ceramic collecting in Switzerland. Many important collections of porcelain and faience have been offered by Koller, including works from the Dr Siegfried Ducret collection, the Dr Paul and Ursula Müller-Frei collection, and the collection of René and Friederike Felber.

Works from Meissen, Sèvres, Strasbourg, Nymphenburg, Du Paquier, Zurich, as well as Italian Maiolica and creations from Imperial Russia are avidly sought after by a discerning buying public, sometimes attaining record prices: for example, a rare and important Meissen ‘crinoline’ group from the Müller-Frei collection sold for a record CHF 214 000. Among the other highlights in recent years are a rare Meissen candlestick modelled by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner that sold for CHF 78 000, a large Meissen figure of a great crested grebe modelled by Kändler that changed hands for CHF 144 000, and an important Meissen travel service bearing the arms of the Venetian patrician family Correr sold for CHF 114 000.

Sabine Neumaier, Head of Department for Porcelain & Faience, is available to estimate single items or entire collections for our upcoming auctions. Our Decorative Arts auctions are held in March and September. Consignments are accepted until mid-January for our March auctions, and late July for our September sales.

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Sabine Neumaier, porcelain specialist at Koller

If you wish to consign to one of our auctions, we will value your artworks free of charge. Please send us photos if possible, or call us. We will arrange an appointment to view your property at your home or in one of our offices in Zurich, Geneva, Florence, Munich or Düsseldorf. You will then receive our auction estimates so that you can make your decision.

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SELECTED RESULTS Porcelain & Ceramics

PAIR OF TROMPE-L'OEIL DUCKS

Strasbourg, Paul Hannong period, 1745–54. Model by Johann Wilhelm Lanz (1748–54).

Faience tureen, naturalistically modelled, finely painted and hatched in overglaze enamels in shades of brown and grey, as well as black, yellow and purple. Unmarked.

Each 36.5 cm in length, 25.5 cm in height.

Female duck: Minor chips to the inner edge of the lid and to the feet. Male duck: Feet slightly restored.

CHF 46 250 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1017

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PAIR OF TROMPE-L'OEIL DUCKS

CHF 46 250

TROMPE-L’ŒIL PIGEON, PROBABLY FROM THE CLEMENSWERTH SERVICE

Strasbourg, Paul Hannong period, circa 1750; the model is attributed to Johann Wilhelm Lanz (1748–54).

Faience tureen decorated in overglaze enamels. Naturalistically modelled, finely painted and hatched in shades of grey, with purple feet, on a white base with branch support and foliage. Cover and tureen marked "9" in blue.

L 33 cm; H 24.5 cm.

Minor restoration to the tail feathers.

CHF 25 000 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1033

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TROMPE-L’ŒIL PIGEON, PROBABLY FROM THE CLEMENSWERTH SERVICE

CHF 25 000

PAIR OF TROMPE-L'OEIL PARTRIDGES FROM THE CLEMENSWERTH SERVICE

Strasbourg, Paul Hannong period, circa 1745–54. Model probably by Johann Wilhelm Lanz (1748–54).

Faience tureen, naturalistically modelled, finely painted and hatched in overglaze enamels in shades of brown and purple, on a white base with roses, leaves and a branch support. Unmarked.

L 21.5 cm; H 18 cm and L 20.5 cm; H 18.5 cm.

1 partridge with retouching to the lower part of the tail and to the beak.

CHF 47 500 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1038

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PAIR OF TROMPE-L'OEIL PARTRIDGES FROM THE CLEMENSWERTH SERVICE

CHF 47 500

HIGHLY IMPORTANT PLAQUE BY ADAM FRIEDRICH VON LÖWENFINCK

Fulda, circa 1741–44.

Faience decorated in overglaze technique. Painted in grisaille after Johann Christoph Steinberger’s (1680–1727) engraving "The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple" from the New Testament (Luke 2:22). Depicting the ritual purification of Mary, kneeling to the right of the altar, with Joseph to the left offering two young doves. Simeon, wearing a bishop’s mitre and holding a censer, together with the kneeling prophetess Anna to the left, the Christ Child lying in a halo of glory on the altar table. Above the scene, two monumental temple columns rise into the clouds amid numerous angels. At the lower edge, two angels, one pointing toward the scene at the altar. Signed lower right "A.F.V.Löwenfincken.pinx.".

18.5 × 15.2 cm.

CHF 81 250 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1092

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HIGHLY IMPORTANT PLAQUE BY ADAM FRIEDRICH VON LÖWENFINCK

CHF 81 250

IMPORTANT PICTORIAL PLAQUE WITH AN ALLEGORY OF A MONTH

Künersberg, circa 1760.

Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. Octagonal form with raised border. At the center, a girl standing on a strip of ground, holding a symbolic bouquet of lilies and lily-of-the-valley and a radish, her gaze directed towards the viewer. Musical instruments on the ground. In the background, a park landscape with a formal French garden and a pavilion beside an artificial lake with figures in boats. Beyond, a fading hilly landscape in pale blue in the manner of the Künersberg "Uferlandschaften" (riverbank landscapes). In a later carved wooden frame. Unmarked.

Ø 38 cm (without wooden frame).

Minor chips to the glaze at the edges.

CHF 25 000 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1113

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IMPORTANT PICTORIAL PLAQUE WITH AN ALLEGORY OF A MONTH

CHF 25 000

RARE APOTHECARY JAR

Venice, Cozzi Manufactory, circa 1780.

Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. With lion-mask handles to the sides above applied fruit garlands, and a domed cover with a sliced lemon as finial. Painted with abundant floral decoration and inscribed "Mostarda Fina", with traces of gilding to the rims. Unmarked.

H 49 cm.

The cover is broken.

CHF 26 250 (including buyer's premium)

A218 / 1155

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RARE APOTHECARY JAR

CHF 26 250

MAIOLICA ISTORIATO "SCODELLA" - The Embden Collection

Probably Venice (or Urbino), ca. 1560.

The deep, protruding shape is painted green, ocher, yellow, and blue with a mythological scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Diana and Callisto. The compact depiction shows the Goddess of the Hunt, Diana, on the right edge of the picture, into whose figure Jupiter transforms himself in order to seduce her companion Callisto, who is later transformed into a bear by Jupiter's jealous wife Juno. Ocher-yellow border and line borders on the back.

Ø 30 cm.

Chipped rim.

CHF 13 750 (including buyer's premium)

A214 / 1109*

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MAIOLICA ISTORIATO "SCODELLA" - The Embden Collection

CHF 13 750

MAJOLICA AMPHORA VASE - The Embden Collection

Urbino, Patanazzi workshop, ca. 1580.

With double serpentine handles on the sides above ocher mascarons. Painted on both sides with a quatrefoil cartouche in an architectural frame flanked by two cherubs, painted in blue camaïeu in the center with sea creatures, Triton, and Nereid, on a white background with grotesque painting.

H 52 cm.

Restored.

CHF 22 500 (including buyer's premium)

A214 / 1128*

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MAJOLICA AMPHORA VASE - The Embden Collection

CHF 22 500

LARGE FAIENCE “DELFTWARE” PLATTER - The Embden Collection

probably England, Southwark, dated 1646.

The well features an intimate scene with a monk and a woman embracing, observed by a fellow monk hidden behind a curtain. The lip of the plate is decorated with textile leaves, dated and monogrammed “BM 1646” in blue on the verso.

Ø 48 cm.

Repaired with clamps.

CHF 43 750 (including buyer's premium)

A214 / 1132*

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LARGE FAIENCE “DELFTWARE” PLATTER - The Embden Collection

CHF 43 750

IZNIK POTTERY PLATE WITH BLUE DECORATION

Turkey, Ottoman Empire, ca. 1560–70.

Painted in a greyish blue, the center with a rosette and radial, stylized leaf decoration with pointed arches in a double-lined border, surrounded with seven floral motifs. Stylized “breaking waves” border on the lip. The back with alternating chinoiserie and leaf decoration. The foot ring with a drilled hole for mounting.

Ø 28 cm.

CHF 36 250 (including buyer's premium)

A212 / 1039

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IZNIK POTTERY PLATE WITH BLUE DECORATION

CHF 36 250

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