Lot Essay
Cf. Rolf Sommemann/Eberhard Wächtler, Johann Friedrich Böttger zum 300. Geburstag (1982), no. 1/85 for a similar shaped example applied with flowers
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FROM THE KORTHAUS COLLECTION
A BÖTTGER WHITE OVIFORM VASE AND COVER modelled by J.J. Irminger, the shoulder and base applied with radiating stiff leaves with raised midribs and veins and one side of the vase with a firing crack on a circular stepped foot, the underside with attached frit, the domed cover with applied stiff foliage ornament and the flat top with three concentric raised bands, all beneath an even unctuous glaze (some minute chipping to leaves on body), circa 1715
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A BÖTTGER WHITE OVIFORM VASE AND COVER modelled by J.J. Irminger, the shoulder and base applied with radiating stiff leaves with raised midribs and veins and one side of the vase with a firing crack on a circular stepped foot, the underside with attached frit, the domed cover with applied stiff foliage ornament and the flat top with three concentric raised bands, all beneath an even unctuous glaze (some minute chipping to leaves on body), circa 1715
15.5cm. high
15.5cm. high