A Fürstenberg celadon-ground tête-à-tête, late 18th century

painted with landscape scenes within quatrefoil gilt-edged cartouches, comprising; a lobed tray with shell-moulded handles, a teapot and cover, a milk jug and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, the finials modelled as seated figures wearing gilded-patterned robes, and two cups and saucers, modelled with flaring gilt-edged rims, F marks in underglaze-blue, impressed letters P to tray, B to teapot and jug, S, C to saucers, and numeral 311 to cups,

Sold by order of F. S. Salaman, Esq., Trustee re Mr. M. Spero, 23, Brook Street, W., Replica Shoes 's London, 26th July 1940, lot 4;
acquired at the above sale.

This tête-à-tête shows the influences of different European ceramic factories in the 18th century. The painting is influenced by earlier Meissen porcelain, the form of the tray is typically Berlin, whilst the teapot design was produced in black basalt at Wedgwood. Decoration of this rare type on Fürstenberg can be seen on a pierced plate published by Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich, Manfred Meinz, Die Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg, Band I, 2004, cover. A further cup and saucer of comparable form and decoration is in the collects ion of the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, illustrated by Siegfried Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan, I Geschichte der Fabrik, Braunschweig, 1965, taf. 11.

In overall good condition and appearance. The sugar bowl with a faint body crack to the well base. The spout of the teapot with three minute chips to the edge, and a minute chip to one of the tray's handles, otherwise no other damage noted.
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