MODEL OF A SLIPPER Bayreuth, circa 1730.

MODEL OF A SLIPPER

Bayreuth, circa 1730.
Faience with textile-pattern decoration in polychrome high-temperature colors of blue, manganese, green and ochre yellow. Marked "B.K." in manganese.
23 × 9 cm.

Provenance:
- Carl Jannicke Collection, until 1946.
- Börsum Collection, Oslo; Sotheby’s auction, London, June 23, 1992, Lot 32.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Literature:
Konrad Hüseler: Deutsche Fayencen, Ein Handbuch der Fabriken ihrer Meister und Werke, vol. I, Stuttgart, 1956, fig. 124.

Rare polychrome high-temperature decoration for the early Knöller period (1728–44), which has been associated with the arrival of the painter Grebner from Nuremberg (Hoffmann 1928, pp. 42–43).