CIRCA 1780, BLUE BINDENSHIELD MARKS, BOTH PAILS IMPRESSED L

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A PAIR OF VIENNA GREEN-GROUND ICE-PAILS, COVERS AND LINERS
Circa 1780, blue Bindenshield marks, both pails impressed L
Each of hemispheric form with bracket handles and raised on ball feet, the cover with flat rim and upright gallery centering a heart-shaped foliate-scroll handle, painted with bouquets and scattered flowers, the border with similar bouquets reserved within pink and yellow-gilt chain borders extending to edge the green ground band further reserved with scattered stars, the links edged in carmine along the lower edge to add depth, gilt line rims and handles
8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) high (4)

Provenance

Fürstin Pauline Metternich-Sándor, Vienna (1836-1921)
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Vienna
Baroness Clarisse de Rothschild, New York, With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1969

Lot Essay

See J. Folnesics and Dr. E. Braun, Geschichte der K.K. Wiener Porzellan Manufaktur 1718-1864, 1907, pp. 73, 77, 78, 99 for a discussion of this service, several pieces of which with similar Metternich-Sándor and Rothschild provenance were sold Christie's, New York, 3 December 1977, lots 109-115. The present pair of ice-pails and the oblong dish in the following lot were acquired by Rosenberg & Stiebel from the estate of Clarisse de Rothschild, widow of Baron Alphonse.

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