Lot Essay
For a brown-ground beaker gilded with flowers in the British Museum, London (Franks Collection), see J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the du Paquier Period (London, 1952), pl. 13a.
CIRCA 1725
Details
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) BLUE-GROUND CHINOISERIE BEAKER AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725
The washed underglaze blue ground with silvered flowering branches, reserved with ogival quatrefoil panels painted in iron-red with Oriental figures at discussion taking tea, drinking and playing musical instruments, divided by onion-shaped panels of half flowerheads and foliage, the underside of the saucer with trailing flowering branches (beaker with slight wear to tarnished silvering, crack around base, saucer with silvering largely worn away)
CIRCA 1725
The washed underglaze blue ground with silvered flowering branches, reserved with ogival quatrefoil panels painted in iron-red with Oriental figures at discussion taking tea, drinking and playing musical instruments, divided by onion-shaped panels of half flowerheads and foliage, the underside of the saucer with trailing flowering branches (beaker with slight wear to tarnished silvering, crack around base, saucer with silvering largely worn away)
Provenance
Schnyder von Wartensee Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 29th June 1982, lot 25
With E. & H. Manners, London, 1996
With E. & H. Manners, London, 1996
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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