SMALL PUMPKIN VASE WITH DORÉ DECORATION Künersberg, circa 1745.

SMALL PUMPKIN VASE WITH DORÉ DECORATION

Künersberg, circa 1745.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels and gilding. Baluster form, painted with floral decoration and large and small silhouette insects, between a gilt border and iron-red Laub- und Bandelwerk decoration heightened in gold and green. Unmarked.
H 12.2 cm.

Provenance:
- Christie's auction, Rome, March 10, 1977, Lot 21.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg, acquired at the above auction.

The "Künersberg Doré", a term used for the gilt borders and these characteristic ornamental borders, was combined with German flowers, insects and birds, as well as with painted cartouches. Initials have been identified within this group, including the calligraphic ornaments "E" and "A" associated with Anna Elisabeth Auffenwerth-Wald of the Augsburg Hausmaler workshop ("Künersberg" exhibition 1995, p. 110). For a comparable example, see Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. no. 34/1881 (Paul Heiland Collection).