A rare Böttger stoneware jug
A rare Böttger stoneware jug
Red Böttger stoneware with silver mountings. The original lid can be lifted via a delicate silver mounting, with an acorn thumbrest. Impressed dreher's mark of Peter Geithner the Elder. Chips around the base and the inner rim of the lid. H with thumbrest 21.4 cm.
Circa 1711/12.
Provenance
Auctioned by Christie's London on 22nd May 2019, lot 332.
The Domanski Collection.
Literature
A similar tankard with a silver lid in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Ob. no. BK-1957-40).
Further early Böttger stoneware items illustrated in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, p. 69 ff.
View it on
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
A rare Böttger stoneware jug
Red Böttger stoneware with silver mountings. The original lid can be lifted via a delicate silver mounting, with an acorn thumbrest. Impressed dreher's mark of Peter Geithner the Elder. Chips around the base and the inner rim of the lid. H with thumbrest 21.4 cm.
Circa 1711/12.
Provenance
Auctioned by Christie's London on 22nd May 2019, lot 332.
The Domanski Collection.
Literature
A similar tankard with a silver lid in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Ob. no. BK-1957-40).
Further early Böttger stoneware items illustrated in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, p. 69 ff.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
