CENTERPIECE Bayreuth, circa 1761–67.

CENTERPIECE

Bayreuth, circa 1761–67.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. The shaped oval dish supported on an oak trunk applied with acorns, its roots extending onto the correspondingly shaped underdish, painted with scattered flowers. Unmarked.
H 21 cm.

Provenance:
Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Exhibited:
Schloss Jegenstorf, Schweizer Keramik ((Exhibition Catalog) 1948, No. 421.

This centerpiece, based on a Strasbourg prototype, was produced in three sizes, of which the smallest is a unique example exhibited at the Strasbourg museum (Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, 1975, p. 149, no. 272).

Comparable examples: Miller 1994, pp. 135 ff., cat. no. 184; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, inv. no. Ke 2607.