Auction 110 - Tag 3 Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany

This is session 3 of 3 of our 110th auction


featuring over 1300 items in the categories fine art, ceramics, metalware, sculptures and more! Please visit our webpage to find the current session schedule with the respective categories and further information.

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LOT 4349:

August Schleich, smoke painting "Hare"
Depiction of a hare's head in the round mirror of a plate, soot varnished ...

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Auction took place on May 27, 2023 at Auktionshaus Mehlis
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August Schleich, smoke painting "Hare"
Depiction of a hare's head in the round mirror of a plate, soot varnished on ceramic plate, smoke painting c. 1850, inconspicuously signed "Schleich" lower right, suspension attached to the reverse, original retouching in brown oil paint, traces of age, counterpart to the previous and following position, diameter of the plate c. 22.5 cm. Artist's info: called "Schleichgustel", Germ. Animal draughtsman, etcher, lithographer and porcelain painter (1814 Munich to 1865 Munich), son and pupil of the reproduction engraver Johann Carl Schleich (1759-1842), further education at the Munich academy, in the 1840s invention of "smoke painting", active in Munich, Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", "Die Gartenlaube" of 1867, issue 20, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Nagler, Müller-Singer, Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century" and Internet.