A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-f ...
A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-form handles
Comprising an oval tray with a snake forming the rim, two baluster-form covered jugs entwined with snakes, a sugar bowl formed as a kantharos, one teacup with a snake handle and one saucer. All pieces decorated with sunburst motifs in burnished gold. The tray centred by a depiction of a winged putti in a rhombus. Blue bindenschild mark, year letters 807 and 808, potter's mark P for Anton Payer and 39, etc. One lid replaced. Tray W 32.5, jug H 16.5 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal manufactory, 1808.
** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009
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A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-form handles
Comprising an oval tray with a snake forming the rim, two baluster-form covered jugs entwined with snakes, a sugar bowl formed as a kantharos, one teacup with a snake handle and one saucer. All pieces decorated with sunburst motifs in burnished gold. The tray centred by a depiction of a winged putti in a rhombus. Blue bindenschild mark, year letters 807 and 808, potter's mark P for Anton Payer and 39, etc. One lid replaced. Tray W 32.5, jug H 16.5 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal manufactory, 1808.
** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009
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