WALL SCONCE Künersberg, circa 1760.

WALL SCONCE

Künersberg, circa 1760.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. Modelled in cartouche form with rocaille ornament and a broken pediment with latticework, painted in polychrome enamels, with a mask, its mouth pierced with a square aperture for the attachment of a metal candle arm, surmounted and painted with a rose and a spray of delphinium. Unmarked.
50 × 39 cm.

Provenance:
- René Simmermacher Art Gallery, Zurich.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg; acquired from the above in 1995.

This model was produced with various decorative schemes in both high-temperature colors and overglaze enamels; examples are in the following museums: Swiss National Museum, Zurich, inv. no. HA 4181; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no. C.135-1951 (Fröschner 1995, no. 395, ill. p. 299); Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. no. Ker 1399; Museum für Franken, Würzburg, inv. no. S.8653; Städtisches Museum Memmingen, inv. no. 2,782; Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg (Hüseler I 1956, fig. 84). A pair with comparable decoration was sold at Bonhams, London, 2 July 2019, lot 110.

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