Tag: 18th century works of art

Franconia Guild Glass ca. 1720

Written by PV on March 12, 2025. Posted in Works of art.

The Carter’s Beaker: Enamel Artistry on Franconian Glass This cylindrical beaker represents Franconia craft traditions in early 18th century. In vibrant enamel decoration it is depicting a carter (Fuhrmannszunft) in traditional clothing, proudly wielding a whip while handling his team of black horses. The object features a complete scene that wraps around the glass, with the carter, horses, and a wagon with a prominent wheel and the initials “V.R.”. Franconian Glassmaking Tradition Franconia, a region in northern Bavaria, developed a...

crailsheim-fayence-walzenkrug-galantes-paar-18-jhd-detail

Crailsheim Faience Tankard ca. 1750

Written by PV on March 9, 2025. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience.

Toasting to ChivalryRomantic Pursuits on a Crailsheim Faience Masterpiece Dating approximately 1750, this elegant faience tankard from the Crailsheim manufactory represents a superb example of mid-18th century German decorative arts. The piece showcases the refined craftsmanship and artistic design with narrative pictorial elements that provide insight into the social customs and aesthetic preferences of the time. Crailsheim Faience Tankard depicting a lady between and cavaliers, ca. 1750 Dinkelsbuehl pewter mounts master’s mark of Johann...

Nueremberg-Faience-tankard-kordenbusch-lazarus-dated-1757-detail

Nuremberg Faience Tankard dated 1757

Written by PV on March 5, 2025. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience.

The Raising of Lazarus painted by Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch Nuremberg Faience Tankard dated 1757, Nuremberg Pewter Mounts by Johann Georg Marx, H. 23 cm Raising of Lazarus painted by Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch Known for a refined blue and white decorative style inspired by Dutch Delft pottery, this tankard exemplifies the exceptional skill of the painter Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch creating decorations with narrative depth depicting biblical scenes using the blue and white palette in an intricate composition. Sophisticated use of blue...

Faience Plaque Kuenersberg ca. 1760

Written by PV on February 24, 2025. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Museum.

Rare Künersberg faience picture plate ca. 1760Künersberger Fayence Bildplatte um 1760 Painted on Kuenersberg “blank” ware by a HAUSMALER in Augsburg in muffle-fired enamel colours Kuenersberg Faience Plaque ca. 1760, polychrome decoration, B. 16 cm Kuenersberg Faience Plaque ca. 1760, polychrome decoration, B. 16 cm Museum Presentation: One of the objects has been part of a private loan at the Stadmuseum Memmingen Künersberg Bildtafel um 1750 im Stadtmuseum...

Friedberg-fayence-walzenkrug-dame-jagdhorn-18-jh-detail-dame-hund

Friedberg Faience 1754 - 1768

Written by PV on February 15, 2025. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Faience, Museum.

Fayence Objekte aus der Friedberger Manufaktur in Blaumalerei In 1754, Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria founded a manufactory for faience situated in the Friedberg Castle. As the manufactory only existed for a few years, the Friedberg faiences are extremely rare. Friedberger Teller um 1760 Blaumalerei mit Insekten und Blumen Museum im Wittelsbacher Schloss The blue painting of “Indian flowers” in the style of East Asian patterns was first adopted in Meissen and inspired various faience manufactories, including Friedberg. At the time Josef Hackel (1754 –...

Daubenkrüge aus Kulmbach und Thüringen

Written by PV on February 12, 2025. Posted in Works of art, Pewter.

18th century German Stave Jugs Thuringia and Kulmbach (Franconia) English summary 18th century stave jugs produced in the Franconian and Thuringian region are of very high quality. These tankards were decorated with exquisite pewter mounts and the body elaborately inlaid with finely engraved pewter. The craftsmanship of the objects was complex and required the cooperation of several skilled craftsmen and artisans, i.e. beadmakers, carvers, pewterers and engravers. It can be assumed that the customers came from the wealthy classes, looking at the decorations, which depict...

highlights-faience-stoneware-catalogue-2024-peter-vogt-antiques-munich

Invitation Sale March 2nd 2024

Written by PV on February 24, 2024. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Stoneware, Works of art.

Einladung zur Verkaufsausstellung 2024 Vorbesichtigung | Viewing Days Montag 26. Februar 2024 bis Freitag 1. März 2024 10 Uhr bis 17 Uhr Sale on Saturday March 2nd 2024 Faience Stoneware Works of Art Download Catalogue Peter_Vogt_Antiquitaeten_Katalog_Fayence_Steinzeug _2024_Kdownload Get in touch for condition reports and additional images Peter VogtAntiquitäten im RathausMarienplatz 8Eingang Landschaftstrasse80331 MünchenTelephone +49 89 29 41 32

Zunft Krüge und Zunft Zeichen

Written by PV on November 6, 2023. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Faience.

Craft Guilds and Guild Signs on 18th century ceramics Historical context of the guild system A standard element of the guild organisation was that the members were granted, as a privilege of their membership, the right to produce and sell a specific product, or range of products, to the exclusion of all non-members. (Source: Access to the Trade: Monopoly and Mobility in European Craft Guilds, 17th and 18th Centuries Maarten Prak Utrecht University, 2018)Guilds were most common and powerful during the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. Under the guild system the artisan worked on...

Bunzlauer Steinzeug | Silesia Stoneware

Written by PV on January 2, 2023. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Museum, Stoneware, Works of art.

Silesia Stoneware 17th century and 18th century Boleslawieckiej Ceramiki XVII-XVIII w. In the late 17th century, Bolesławiec (Silesia) potteries started to produce pitchers with smooth or slantwise grooved bellies. Initially, the pitchers had spherical bellies. From the mid-18th century, oval forms gradually replaced them. The older pitchers were decorated with wide, often vertically arranged ribs; the newer vessels feature finer and denser ribbing, applied slantwise on the belly. Apart from the earthen glaze, glaze with various shades of green was used. The vessels were equipped...

Emaildose Dosenmaler Johann Andreas Bechdolff um 1765

Dosenmaler Johann Andreas Bechdolff | enamel snuff box

Written by PV on October 30, 2022. Posted in Expert Knowledge, Works of art.

Emaildose mit der Stadtansicht von Ellwangen um 1765, bemalt vom Haus- und Dosenmaler Johann Andreas Bechdolffin Ellwangen Emaildose Stadtansicht Ellwangen Johann Andreas Bechdolff um 1765 Emaildose Stadtansicht Ellwangen Johann Andreas Bechdolff um 1765 Inspiration für die Malerei...

Westerwälder Birnkrug um 1750

Written by PV on May 9, 2022. Posted in Stoneware.

Rare saltglazed stoneware Westerwald pear-shaped jug with stoneware lidding ca. 1750. Seltener Westerwälder Birnkrug um 1750, graues salzglasiertes Steinzeug mit Ritzdekor,kobaltblau bemalt, die Wandung ist sechsseitig abgeflacht, zinnmontierter Steinzeugdeckel,H. 25 cm Westerwälder Birnkrug mit zinnmontiertem Steinzeugdeckel um 1750, H. 25 cm Reference pieces with stoneware lidding German Stoneware Westerwald Tankard ca. 1750, painted in cobalt blue over incised, stamped and relief-moulded applied decoration with stoneware lid ,H. 15 cm Westerwald Stoneware Jug ca. 1750...

18th-century-works-of-art-Fayence-Hausmaler-Jug-with-Purpur-Flora

Hausmaler Krug | Bartholomäus Seuter

Written by PV on March 5, 2022. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Faience.

Augsburger Hausmalerkrug Muffelmalerei bemalt von Bartholomäus Seuter auf einem Ansbacher Fayence Enghalskrug, Medaillon: Frühlingsgöttin Flora mit Blütenkranz, umrahmt von Barockornament in Purpur und bunten Muffelfarben um 1730 Ansbacher Enghalskrug mit Darstellung der Frühlingsgöttin Flora gerahmt von Barockkartusche in Purpur und bunten Muffelfarben um 1730 Ansbacher Enghalskrug um 1730, vom Augsburger Hausmaler Bartholomäus Seuter mit bunten Muffelfarben bemalt, H. 30 cm Baroque Ansbach Faience Enghalskrug DECORATION BY BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER (Augsburg) Cartouche with Goddess...

Wetterauer-Birnkrug-1724-datiert-Ritzdekor

Wetterauer Hafner Krug 1724 datiert

Written by PV on February 20, 2022. Posted in European Ceramics, Works of art.

Wetterauer Birnkrug 1724 datiert, mit Ritzdekorund zweifarbiger Bemalung Braun glasierte Hafnerkeramik mit geritztem Dekor (Sgrafitto Technik) Wetterau in Hessen English Synopsis: Hafnerware from Wetterau in Hesse (near Gießen) is quite rare as well as special with its decoration in Sgrafitto technique used in this region during in 17th and 18th century creating ceramic works of art.This technique was very popular in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries originally to decorate walls. During the 16th century, the technique was brought to Germany and used on earthenware. Two...

Fajans Urna med Lock, Lockvas , Stockholm, Sverige ca. 1758

18th Century Faience Rörstrand Stockholm

Written by PV on February 4, 2022. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Faience.

Ein seltenes Paar Fayencen Vasen aus der Manufaktur in Rörstrand Stockholm Schweden mit Blumenbouquets in leuchtend bunten Muffelfarben bemalt in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die schwedische Fayencemanufaktur Rörstrand unweit von Stockholm wurde 1726 gegründet. Diese Objekte stammen aus der Periode Anders Fahlström (1740 – 1760)Die Malerei stammt vermutlich von Erik Wahlberg (Siehe Vergleichsstück Nationalmuseum Stockholm) Fayencevasen Rörstrand um 1758 Muffelfarben H. 31cm Manufakturmarke Stockholm Röstrand Faience Vase with Stockholm Mark ca. 1758 H. 31 cm A rare pair...

Baroque Crailsheim Flower Tankard

Written by PV on February 1, 2021. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience.

Baroque 18th century Crailsheim Tankards depicting colourful flowers |Barocke Fayence Blumenkrüge aus der Manufaktur in Crailsheim mit leuchtend bunten Muffelfarben bemalt um 1760 The polychrome flower painting with muffle fired colours was probably introduced by former Meissen porcelain painters in the Crailsheim Manufactory around the middle of the 18th century. The Crailsheim flower tankards stand out with their fine and expressive painting with very thin contours in black-brown.Little is known about the Crailheim faience manufactory. It probably existed from ca. 1715 to ca....

Baroque Faience Inkstand

Written by PV on January 30, 2021. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Works of art.

18th century works of art Crailsheim faience inkstand ca. 1770 with hunting decor in highfired colours sides of inkstand with hounds colourful hunting scene with hound chasing rabbit above a fox Hiding fox in the middle Crailsheimer Schreibzeug um 1770, Jagdmotive in bunten Scharffeuerfarben, B. 14 cm | Crailsheim inkstand ca. 1770 The inkstand can be attributed to the period of Johann Georg Weiss the Elder. A Crailsheim Hunting Tankard of the same period is shown in following article: ...

Raeren Schnelle Jan Emens saltglazed stoneware 16th century

Fayence und Steinzeug Katalog 2021

Written by PV on January 19, 2021. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Stoneware, Works of art, Pewter.

Faience Tureen with cover 18th century works of art ceramics feathered game

Proskau Fayence | Proskau Faience

Written by PV on February 2, 2020. Posted in European Ceramics, Expert Knowledge, Faience.

Fayence aus der Proskauer Manufaktur gehörte früher zur Zierde barocker Tafeln und schmückten herrschaftliche Wohnsitze. Faience from the Proskau manufactory used to decorate baroque tables and adorned mansions. Proskau Marken um 1800 Bis heute wird oberschlesische Fayence aus Proskau aus der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts sehr geschätzt und gesammelt. To this very day Upper Silesian faience from Proskau dating around the second half of the 18th century is highly valued and collected....

New Catalogue 2020 Faience Stoneware Silver Works of Art 17th and 18th century

Fayence und Steinzeug Katalog 2020

Written by PV on January 18, 2020. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Stoneware, Works of art.

Magdeburger Fayence Netzvase um 1770

Written by PV on January 31, 2019. Posted in European Ceramics, Faience, Museum.

Ein Highlight aus unserem aktuellen Katalog: English Synopsis: Rare Magdeburg Faience Potpourri late 18th centuryFisherman motive in landscape with manganese high-fired colorsAsymmetrical Rocaille Cartouche.Net decoration is artfully adorned with flowers. Seltene Magdeburger Netzvase aus dem 18. JHFigürliches Fischer Motiv in Landschaft mit manganen Scharffeuerfarben in asymetrischer rocaillenförmiger Kartusche. Das gitterförmig ausgearbeitete Netzdekor ist kunstvoll mit Blüten dekoriert Magdeburger Fayence Netzvase um 1770, mit manganen Scharffeuerfarben H 24 cmMagdeburg...

Antique Interiors with style

Written by PV on June 24, 2018. Posted in European Ceramics, Works of art.

English summary: Get your antiques out of the showcaseBe inspired for an individual “interior styling” with original objects from past centuries.To preserve the precious objects, you can use matching glass or plastic inlays so you can decorate with real flowers and put them into water. Sceaux-Faience-Apothecary-Jar-Albarello-18th-century Es lohnt sich kreativ zu sein für ein individuelles “Interior Styling” mit Stücken vergangener Epochen.Mit den passenden Einsätzen aus Glas (Schnapsgläschen) lässt sich das schlichte Biedermeier Schreibzeug um 1820 in eine...

nuernberg-faience-plate-detail-flowers-bird

Nürnberger Fayence Teller

Written by PV on April 21, 2015. Posted in Faience.

Nürnberger Fayence Teller um 1730, polychromer Scharffeuer Dekor mit Indianische Blumen und Vogel. P. C. Schwab zugeschrieben. Nürnberger Fayence Teller um 1730 P.C. Schwab zugeschrieben D. 26 cm Vergleichbare Stücke im Museum: Museum Deutscher Fayencen Schloss Höchstädt an der Donau Literaturquelle: Begleitende CD zum Katalog Fayence Museum Schloss Höchstädt Autor: Dr. ZifferHerausgeber. Bayerische Schlösser und Seenverwaltung