"EN BAROC" TUREEN WITH PLATTER Crailsheim, circa 1765.

"EN BAROC" TUREEN WITH PLATTER

Crailsheim, circa 1765.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. Rocaille form with scroll handles, modelled with a drapery pattern and central rocaille motif, on four rocaille feet, with a shell-shaped cover and finial. Painted with floral decoration and a purple hatched rim border. Unmarked.
26.5 × 29 cm, 32 × 24 cm.
Platter associated.

Provenance:
- Fischer Auction, Lucerne.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg; acquired from the above in 1976.

Literature:
Peter Ducret, "Johann Heinrich Klug-Fayencemaler in Crailsheim und Lenzburg" in: KFS 131/2017, p. 8, fig. 5.

This tureen model, which enjoyed great popularity in the 18th century, was widely produced by numerous European faience manufactories, including smaller ones, and originated at Höchst and Strasbourg. A magnificent example from the period of Paul Hannong, with its platter, is in the Abegg Foundation in the Canton of Bern (inv. no. 3.233.90 a, b).
Crailsheim produced various versions decorated in both high-temperature colors and overglaze enamels, as well as in the two-tone green camaïeu decoration characteristic of Crailsheim; see Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, inv. nos. Ke1337 and Ke488.