Painted with a Nereid riding a Triton amongst elaborate gilt scrollwork edged in iron-red festooned with flowers and two putti feeding large birds. The domed gilt-metal mounted cover inset with a silver coin of the ‘drei gute Regeln‘.

The British Museum, (Franks Cat. 123)

We are able to date this tankard to Bottengruber’s Breslau period around 1726 due to the similarity in treatment to a teabowl and saucer in the British Museum that is marked on the reverse with ‘IB’ 1726 below ‘W’ for Wratislaviensis, the Latin name for Breslau.[i]

Jean Le Pautre. Frises, feuillages ou tritons marins antiques et modernes. Circa 1640-82

The decoration of our tankard and the British Museum teabowl and saucer is adapted from an engraving by Jean Le Pautre.[ii]

Condition:
A long fine body crack on the side to the left of the handle that is quite hard to see. It starts from 3.5 cm below the rim and extends to the foot. It is just visible from the inside as well. Only noticeable on close inspection.

Provenance:

Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Riehen, sold Christie’s Geneva, 30 April 1975, lot 227 (withdrawn from sale)
The Rosa Alba Collection.

Literature:

Köllman & von Carolsfeld 1956
E. Köllman & L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan der europäischen Fabriken, vol. II (1956), p. 152.

References:

Cassidy-Geiger 1998
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ‘The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber’, Metropolitan Museum Journal 33 (1998), pp. 245-62.

Dawson 1985
Aileen Dawson, ‘Documentary Continental Ceramics from the British Museum’, Exhibition catalogue, (International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London, 1985)

[i] Dawson 1995, p. 30 no. 19.

[ii] See Casidy-Geiger 1998, fig.30 for another related Le Pautre engraving.

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