Lot Essay
See Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan, Vienna, fig. 249 for a similar example.
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A VIENNA TWO-HANDLED ICE-PAIL
CIRCA 1780
Cylindrical, with gadrooned edge above a band of moulded lappets, the shoulder painted with blue ribbon entwined with gilt honeysuckle flanked by bearded ram's head handles enriched with gilt above biscuit classical medallions with wreath surrounds suspended by laurel garlands enriched with gilding, the sides moulded with oval paterae within blue and gilt lines on a flaring base moulded with a band of lappets (cracks, chips to footrim, gilding worn)--8¼in. (21cm.) high
CIRCA 1780
Cylindrical, with gadrooned edge above a band of moulded lappets, the shoulder painted with blue ribbon entwined with gilt honeysuckle flanked by bearded ram's head handles enriched with gilt above biscuit classical medallions with wreath surrounds suspended by laurel garlands enriched with gilding, the sides moulded with oval paterae within blue and gilt lines on a flaring base moulded with a band of lappets (cracks, chips to footrim, gilding worn)--8¼in. (21cm.) high