A VIENNA BLUE GROUND CHINOISERIE CUP AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1780, BLUE BEEHIVE MARKS

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A VIENNA BLUE GROUND CHINOISERIE CUP AND SAUCER
Circa 1780, blue beehive marks
The inverted pear-shaped cup with entwined branch handle, gilt and chased with a chinoiserie vignette and reserved within a gilt rocaille cartouche on the blue ground gilt with trellis, a flowerhead centering each join, the saucer decorated en suite with a variant vignette (2)

Provenance

W.P. Harbeson; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 December 1971, lot 230

Lot Essay

See Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, Vienna, no. 256, tafel 44 for the hot-milk jug and cover in the collection of the sterreichisches Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Vienna (inv. no. Ke 5989) from the same service as the present cup and saucer.

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