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拍品專文
The present vase can be identified as the central vase of a three-vase garniture of which the right-hand vase is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum. Previously in the Oscar Bondy Collection, Vienna, it was acquired by the noted works of art dealer Leopold Blumka and subsequently given to the museum.
When placed beside the present example, the proportions of the two compliment each other perfectly. Both are painted by the same hand and with similar cartouches reserved on a flowered ground, the Metropolitan Museum's example painted on the front with a male figure standing and admiring what would appear to be porcelain wares on a table. He has traditionally been identified as Du Paquier. The reverse of both vases are painted with putti at play, likely based on engravings by Jacques Stella, Les Jeux de plaisirs de l'enfance, Paris, 1657.
However, more than the decorative links between these two vases, it is the inscriptions surrounding the front cartouches which confirm without doubt the fact that they belong together. Translated from the Latin and reading left to right on the assumption that the museum's vase belongs on the right as it portrays the finished wares of the Du Paquier factory it reads:
After one hundred attempts were counted, Vienna itself has now made the vessel.
China, do not claim that your Arts are unknown beyond your boundaries. Behold, you shall be conquered by European ingenuity - at Vienna.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period, London, 1952, pp. 203-204, plate 16a (the pendant vase in the Metropolitan Museum)
Wilhelm Mzazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, no. 136 (a silver-mounted vase of similar form also painted in puce with putti frolicking in a landscapes)
Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan de Frühzeit 1718-1744, Vienna, 1994, no 84 (the same vase as that included in the Museum für angewandte Kunst exhibition showing the other side and giving as provenance Sammlung Rudolf Stein, Brünn, sold at Glüselig's in 1924 as lot 9; an anonymous sale held at Galerie Fischer in Luzern, August 1939 as lot 687, the collection of Leopold and Ruth Blumka); no. 85 (a pair similar in size to that at the Metropolitan Museum but painted in colors with Stella children and Indianische Blumen, in the author's collection but previously in that of Leopold and Ruth Blumka; no. 86 (another polychrome pair with a slightly taller neck and no covers)
When placed beside the present example, the proportions of the two compliment each other perfectly. Both are painted by the same hand and with similar cartouches reserved on a flowered ground, the Metropolitan Museum's example painted on the front with a male figure standing and admiring what would appear to be porcelain wares on a table. He has traditionally been identified as Du Paquier. The reverse of both vases are painted with putti at play, likely based on engravings by Jacques Stella, Les Jeux de plaisirs de l'enfance, Paris, 1657.
However, more than the decorative links between these two vases, it is the inscriptions surrounding the front cartouches which confirm without doubt the fact that they belong together. Translated from the Latin and reading left to right on the assumption that the museum's vase belongs on the right as it portrays the finished wares of the Du Paquier factory it reads:
After one hundred attempts were counted, Vienna itself has now made the vessel.
China, do not claim that your Arts are unknown beyond your boundaries. Behold, you shall be conquered by European ingenuity - at Vienna.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period, London, 1952, pp. 203-204, plate 16a (the pendant vase in the Metropolitan Museum)
Wilhelm Mzazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, no. 136 (a silver-mounted vase of similar form also painted in puce with putti frolicking in a landscapes)
Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan de Frühzeit 1718-1744, Vienna, 1994, no 84 (the same vase as that included in the Museum für angewandte Kunst exhibition showing the other side and giving as provenance Sammlung Rudolf Stein, Brünn, sold at Glüselig's in 1924 as lot 9; an anonymous sale held at Galerie Fischer in Luzern, August 1939 as lot 687, the collection of Leopold and Ruth Blumka); no. 85 (a pair similar in size to that at the Metropolitan Museum but painted in colors with Stella children and Indianische Blumen, in the author's collection but previously in that of Leopold and Ruth Blumka; no. 86 (another polychrome pair with a slightly taller neck and no covers)