A pair of Fürstenberg porcelain rectangular ornithological wall plaques, circa 1770
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1,500 - 2,000 EUR
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each painted, possibly by Carl Gottlob Albert, with ducks and other water fowl in river landscapes, within an integral moulded gilt frame with pierced rocaille scrolls at each corner, the reverse with four apertures for suspension, both with script F mark in underglaze-blue to back of frame
15.8 by 11.3 cm; 6 ¼ by 4 ⅜ in
Christie’s, Geneva, 12 May 1986, lot 167.
Dr Claudia Jobst, in Frühe Deutsche Porzellane Kunst und Einrichtungen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Röbbig, Munich, 1999, p. 52 (example with mallard ducks).
For a discussion of Fürstenberg plaques, see Manfred Meinz, 'Die Tableaus der Fürstenberger Porzellan-Manufaktur', Keramos, no. 162, October 1998, pp. 15-70. An example with with European and exotic birds, attributed to Carl Gottlob Albert, is illustrated by Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich and Manfred Meinz, Die Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg : eine Kulturgeschichte im Spiegel des Fürstenberger Porzellans, Band II, Munich, 2004, p. 419, fig. 301.
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