CIRCA 1730-35, INCISED LINE TO BASE OF STAND

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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TWO-HANDLED ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND
CIRCA 1730-35, INCISED LINE TO BASE OF STAND
Each side of the écuelle painted in puce camaïeu with figures by classical ruins in wooded landscapes within shaped rectangular cartouches, flanked by dark-brown and gilt diaper panels, with puce scrolling foliage flanking the gilt angular handles, the shallow cover with similar ornament enclosing baskets of flowers radiating around the angular finial, the centre of the saucer similarly decorated within a broad gilt surround, the interior, bowl and cover undersides all richly gilt, the underside of the saucer with brown flower-sprays and puce flowerheads (minute gilded chip to rim of cover, saucer with some wear to enamels at centre)
The stand 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Klaber & Klaber, London, 2001

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Lot Essay

A covered bowl and stand of related form in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Meredith Chilton et al., Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Stuttgart, 2009), Vol. III, p. 1296, no. 316.

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