FROG Fulda, circa 1750.

FROG

Fulda, circa 1750.
Faience decorated in high-temperature colors. Modelled with a domed base painted in manganese, with the frog’s claws indicated in relief and painted yellow. Unmarked.
L 9 cm, H 5.5, cm.

Provenance:
- Stuker Berne Auction, Fischer-Böhler Collection, November 22, 2013, Lots 152, 156.
- Enrico Caviglia Art Gallery, Lugano.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg, acquired from the above in 2016.

Exhibited:
Siegfried Ducret, Aimé Martinet: Das Tier in der Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts. Fayence- und Porzellan-Plastiken und -Malereien der bedeutendsten europäischen Manufakturen. Ausstellung Schloss Jegenstorf, 11.5.-2.11.1952.

Comparable examples: two frogs from the Louis Koch Collection in Frankfurt, marked in manganese "F.D." above "M" for Christian Müller, model by Wenzel Neu. Christian Müller worked as a painter in Fulda from 1746 to 1755 (Hüseler III 1958, p. 242).