Lot 28
28
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) FABLE-PLATE with the story of the lioness and the tortoise in a curious landscape with a pine tree and two birds and pierced rockwork with a gazebo, the blue cruciform border gilt with cracked ice and with four flower sprays (wear chip to underside of rim), circa 1735

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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) FABLE-PLATE with the story of the lioness and the tortoise in a curious landscape with a pine tree and two birds and pierced rockwork with a gazebo, the blue cruciform border gilt with cracked ice and with four flower sprays (wear chip to underside of rim), circa 1735
21cm. diam.
Provenance
Anon. sale Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1981, lot 59

Lot Essay

Although the border pattern occurs on other examples of Vienna porcelain, no similar table service is recorded by Hayward or by Neuwirth & Mrazek

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