CIRCA 1740-45

Details

A VIENNA LOBED QUATREFOIL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740-45
Painted with vignettes of stags in wooded landscapes below birds in flight within puce-line roundels flanked by cornucopiae and palm leaves, the cover with similar lesser vignettes, between gilt lines, the branch handle and fluted spout gilt with scrolls between gilt-line rims and terminals, the pine-cone finial enriched in puce and gilding (minute chip to tip of finial, very small areas of wear to gilding at tip of spout and handle)
5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

With Penizek, from whom it was acquired (as du Paquier) in 1958.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Another teapot of this form is illustrated by J. Folnesics and E.W. Braun, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (Vienna, 1907), pl. VI, no. 4. For a teapot of related form, see J.F. Hayward, op. cit. (London, 1952), pl. 57 and E. Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Vienna, 1994), p. 39, no. 18, where the other known comparable pieces are listed.

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