Three Vienna wine-coolers from the Esterhazy service

CIRCA 1780, BLUE SHIELD MARKS, THE TWO SMALLER WINE-COOLERS WITH IMPRESSED N MARK FOR BOSSIERER FRANZ SCHWEIGER

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Three Vienna wine-coolers from the Esterhazy service
Circa 1780, blue shield marks, the two smaller wine-coolers with impressed N mark for Bossierer Franz Schweiger
Each of gadrooned cylindrical form with blue and gilt lappets edged in gilding and with moulded ram's mask handles suspending swags of laurel leaves surrounding oval and circular biscuit medallions of classical figures, the lower part moulded and decorated in blue and gilt with flowerheads within cable ornament above a spreading circular foot with laurel leaves, gilt foliage and lines, comprising, a tall wine-cooler with a flared lobed rim (cracked through base and up one side and into the biscuit medallion) and a pair of smaller bucket-shaped wine-coolers with plain flared gilt line rims (one with some restoration to rim and restored round the base, some spraying to the interior of base, the other with extensive damage and restoration, both with some retouching to enamel of laurel leaves)
10in. (25.5cm.) and 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Bossierer Franz Schweiger active in the early 1780's, his mark also occurs on the piece in the Auersperg Collection.

The oval verrière from this service in the Sèvres style, then still in the Esterhazy Collection at Esterhaza, illustrated by J.Folnesics and E.W. Braun, Wiener Porzellan (1907), pl. XVIII no. 4. Similar biscuit reliefs occur on another winecooler in the Louis XVI style in the Auersperg collection, see Mrazek and Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan, 1718-1864 (n.d.), pl. 44, no. 249.

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