A rare faience dish with bird motifs
A rare faience dish with bird motifs
Flat plate painted in the centre with dots, foliage and four birds surrounding another in the centre. Unmarked. Some localised wear to the glaze of the rim, three stilt marks to the underside. Diameter 26.3 cm.
Nuremnberg or Ansbach, 1720s.
Literature
Cf. Glaser, Nürnberger Fayencen. Geschichte und Erzeugnisse einer Manufaktur in der Reichsstadt, Nuremberg 2017, cat. 167, 169, and a jug with almost identical decoration, p. 312. cat.153.
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A rare faience dish with bird motifs
Flat plate painted in the centre with dots, foliage and four birds surrounding another in the centre. Unmarked. Some localised wear to the glaze of the rim, three stilt marks to the underside. Diameter 26.3 cm.
Nuremnberg or Ansbach, 1720s.
Literature
Cf. Glaser, Nürnberger Fayencen. Geschichte und Erzeugnisse einer Manufaktur in der Reichsstadt, Nuremberg 2017, cat. 167, 169, and a jug with almost identical decoration, p. 312. cat.153.
