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Pair of pots from the pharmacy of the Landgrave...

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Pair of pots from the pharmacy of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Faience, blue wash decoration. Cylindrical. Large vacant rocaille cartouche, crowned by a princely hat. One glazed base with blue mark ligated "HL F.I.", one unglazed base with manganese mark "H F II". Yellowed and fragile restoration to one lip rim, chips. H approx. 22.5 cm. Kassel, 18th century. Provenance Rhenish private collection. Literature Cf. Fuchs/Heiland, Die deutsche Fayence-Kultur. Einhundertfünfzig der schönsten deutschen Fayencen, Munich 1925, pl. 73 a, described there as "Um 1750. Halle a.d. Saale".