A VIENNA WHITE INVERTED BALUSTER VASE emblematic of Autumn, the shoulders applied with bearded mask-heads and foliage scrolls suspending fruiting vine to one side, on a short stem and square base with a putto holding ears of corn and beside a sheaf of corn (restoration to one leg of putto, one scroll and vine, slight chips to vine and one mask-head), blue shield mark, circa 1770 | Christie's

Lot 134

134

A VIENNA WHITE INVERTED BALUSTER VASE emblematic of Autumn, the shoulders applied with bearded mask-heads and foliage scrolls suspending fruiting vine to one side, on a short stem and square base with a putto holding ears of corn and beside a sheaf of corn (restoration to one leg of putto, one scroll and vine, slight chips to vine and one mask-head), blue shield mark, circa 1770

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A VIENNA WHITE INVERTED BALUSTER VASE emblematic of Autumn, the shoulders applied with bearded mask-heads and foliage scrolls suspending fruiting vine to one side, on a short stem and square base with a putto holding ears of corn and beside a sheaf of corn (restoration to one leg of putto, one scroll and vine, slight chips to vine and one mask-head), blue shield mark, circa 1770
18.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Perhaps forming part of a table decoration similar to the one made for the Abbot of Zwettl, see the Exhibition Catalogue, 'Wiener Porzellan', p. 132, nos. 392-437

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