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Two Swedish faience aphotecary jars, Marieberg, period of Ehrenreich and Rörstrand 18th Century.

Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
530 - 706 EUR
552 - 737 USD
Hammer price
18 000 SEK
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Cecilia Nordström
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Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
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Two Swedish faience aphotecary jars, Marieberg, period of Ehrenreich and Rörstrand 18th Century.

One marked MB, Ehrenreichs period (1758-66). Decoratd with P.S. Cumin, I H S, 3 crowns, Height 13,5 cm. The back of the jar with the name Georgii. The other one signed Rörstrand, with the label P. Ant. Mart, IHS, the three crowns and the name on the back Georgii. Höjd 12,5 cm.

Cracks, chips.

Provenance

Made for the pharmacy of Serafimerlasarettet (Hospital) in Stockholm.

Exhibitions

Compare a similar on in the Collection of the National museum in Stockholm, depicted in Carl Hernmarks book Marieber, pl 47.

Literature

The mark on the back Georgii if for the pharmacist Johan Christian Georgii (son of Petter Eberhard Georgii, who also was a pharmacist, and owned the pharmacy Kronan, Vanadisvägen, Stockholm). Johan Christian came to run the pharmacy in 1750, from 1753 and onwards he became hospital pharmacist at the Serafimer Hospital in Stockholm. Pharmacist to the court.