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348

South German Potter

16th Century

Reclined lion. Circa 1590

Ceramic (grey-red ceramic), cold painted. 35 × 70 × 40 cm (13 ¾ × 27 ½ × 15 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: South German Potter. Reclined lion. Circa 1590.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 16,500

 

- 22,000

Sold for:

18,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

ORANGERIE Big Animals. Big Shots, Thursday, 28.11.2019

Information

Ceramic (grey-red ceramic), cold painted. 35 × 70 × 40 cm (13 ¾ × 27 ½ × 15 ¾ in.). Catalogue raisonné: With a thermo-luminescence-certificate from Labor Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, from 14.6.2005, (no. 01110505), which determines the age as 450 years (in the original). On the reverse thinning of the surface.

Comparable object: Eastern Swiss pottery: Sitting lion with a mortar from a pharmacy, H 40 cm, faience, glazed, Pharmaziemuseum Universität Basle, published in: Regine Pötzsch (ed.): Die Apotheke. Historische Streiflichter. Basel, 1996, p. 172.

We would like to thank Thomas Schindler, Deutsches Hafnerarchiv im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München, and Elias Bloch, Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel, for kindly providing additional information..

Private Collection, Landshut (until 1990, allegedly from Haus Altstadt 93, the historical Alte-Löwen-Apotheke) / Private Collection, Bavaria