Porcelaine, Faïence & Verrerie

Castelli d'Abruzzo, attributed to the workshop of Orazio Pompei (1507-1589), c. 1561-1565.

Of depressed form with wide rim. Painted in blue, yellow and ochre yellow, heightened in copper green and brown. Decorated with the tragic Biblical account of the Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2: 16) before a townscape with viaduct, after the graphic model by Raimondi after a design by Raphael from 1509.

D 44 cm. Old, stabilised crack.

Urbino, workshop of Alfonso Patanazzi, second half of the 16th century.

"In veste dalmatica" type. The head of the Madonna crowned, on her arm the Christ Child with the right hand raised in benediction and the left hand holding an orb. Conical, wavy robe painted in blue with tendrils in imitation of brocade, modelled with two necklaces.

H 45 cm. Minor restoration.

Faenza, dated 1520.

Bowl with wide rim. Depiction of a half-figure, holding a scroll with illegible writing, on a blue ground with light blue grotesques and tendrils heightened in white. Dated 1520 in blue on the reverse.

D 26 cm. Restoration.

Deruta, probably workshop of Giacomo Mancini, called "El Frate" (aktiv c. 1540-60), first half of the 16th century.

Painted in blue and "lustro dorato". The kneeling Saint Jerome with recumbent lion before Golgotha with Christ on the Cross, within a hilly landscape with architecture. The underside painted with concentric circles in lustre, on a flat recessed foot.

D 26 cm. H 6 cm. Restored.

Meissen, Modell von Johann Jakob Irminger, um 1713-1720.

Of flattened ovoid form, all sides applied with three branches with wild rose buds and flowers, on profiled foot, the cylindrical cover with 3 corresponding rose branches and 4 concentric profile rings on top. Without mark.

H 14.8 cm. Minor restorations and chips at the tips.

Meissen, model by J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke, c. 1744-1745.

Pugs with underglaze blue sword marks on the back of the base.

H 15.3 cm and 15 cm. Marginally restored (2)

Urbino, workshop of Guido da Merlino, c. 1540-1545.

Bowl with wide rim. The centre with depiction of Christ and the Adultress (John 8: 1-11), the sides with the crowding residents at the city gates within architecture and a river landscape in the background.

D 27 cm.

Meissen, model by Johann Jacob Irminger, c. 1710.

Reddish-brown, polished stoneware with unpolished relief elements. Of octagonal, conical form with curved spout with eagle head and curved handle. With a cartouche with unpolished crowned coat of arms in the field between the handle attachments, the field above the spout with a mask issuing a connecting support to the spout. The polished cover with palmette finial. Potter's mark: five-pointed star incised below the attachment of the handle.

H 10 cm. D 10.5 cm. Old repair to the handle (Lepke auction, 1925 "gekittet" (cemented)).

Russia, Ural, Demidoff Copper Manufactory, c. 1770.

Patinated, chased copper with parcel gilding. Landscape motifs with tendril and rocaille decoration in between exotic birds and with gilt borders with foliate and scroll motifs. Comprising: Two tea caddies and a tray on three feet, the centre with a chased cartouche with putto.

H 15.5 cm, D 22.5 cm. (3)