PAIR OF "FAMILLE VERTE" VASES Ansbach, circa 1730–40.

PAIR OF "FAMILLE VERTE" VASES

Ansbach, circa 1730–40.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. In East Asian style with branches and birds modelled in relief, painted in the "famille verte" style of the Kangxi period (1662–1722). Inventory no. "OB. 435" in black on the unglazed undersides.
H 22 cm.
Covers missing, small hairline cracks.

Provenance:
- Otto Blohm Collection, Hamburg, Inv. No. OB435.
- Sotheby's Auction, London, The Blohm Collection II, April 25, 1961, No. 334, Plate XI.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Comparable examples: Ansbach Residence, inv. no. K 155 (Bayer Collection); Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. nos. Ker 4370, Ker 4371; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, inv. no. Ke532; "Museum Würzburg" 2023, nos. 106/107, inv. no. A. 66924 (Amelung Collection).
Riesebieter 1921, p. 69, fig. 76; Bayer 1959, p. 69, fig. 50; Bayer 1963, no. 167, fig. 54 (Igo Levi Collection); Weinmüller, 1973, lot 88 (Ulrich Seiler Collection); Ziffer 2012, pp. 106–107 (Neuner Collection).

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