A rare complete Nymphenburg Réchaud, circa 1765

probably modelled by Johann B. Häringer, with exuberant rocaille scrolls supported on four scroll feet, with two handles and pierced vents to the front and back, the domed cover surmounted with a Phoenix bird rising from flames, with its liner, a small handled cup and burner, impressed shield marks, hexagram mark in underglaze-blue to the cup,

The Property of Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 17th October 2001, lot 361, where acquired by the present owner

Comparative Literature
Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml Collection, 1997, p. 251, no. 737

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An example of this model in the white is in the Bäuml Collection, illustrated by Alfred Ziffer, 1997, op. cit, previously in the Dr. Paul von Ostermann Collection, sold Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 18^th December 1928, lot 408. The author lists that only two other examples left in the white are known, one in the Grassi museum, Leipzig, inv. no. 70.74, and a base lacking its cover in the Hirth collection, (published in the collection catalogue, 1898, p. 34, no. 183).

Only four examples of this model are known with painted decoration. One from the Collections of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, was sold by Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 6^th October 1995, lot 804; the Städtisches Museum, Rosenheim (published by Friedrich Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, 1923, p. 69, abb. 63); the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, acc. no. 1985.228a-c, previously in the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, Hamburg, Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 668; and another lacking its cover in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, inv. no. Ker 2209.

In the mid-1750's the Duke Philip Ernest zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein founded the Family Order of Phoenix, the family line divided itself into two branches, the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein and the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst. This connection to the stately symbol of a Phoenix may explain why this object was owned by the Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst family in the 18th century.