A PAIR OF VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) ARMORIAL TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND TREMBLEUSE STANDS, the flared beakers with double-scroll handles with divided scroll terminals enriched with gilding, flanked by pink and gilt diaper panels and schwarzlot scrollwork and anthemion, each side painted with the Cardinal's arms in iron-red, purple, blue and gilt, the shaped oval stands similarly decorated with undulating pierced galleries enclosing a pink flowerhead and Schwarzlot and gilt scrolls, gilt line rims (one gallery with very small piece lacking and two hairline cracks), circa 1730

The Property of the Executors of the late THE RT. HON. ALEXANDER FRANCIS ST. VINCENT BARING, 6TH LORD ASHBURTON, KG KCVO

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A PAIR OF VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) ARMORIAL TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND TREMBLEUSE STANDS, the flared beakers with double-scroll handles with divided scroll terminals enriched with gilding, flanked by pink and gilt diaper panels and schwarzlot scrollwork and anthemion, each side painted with the Cardinal's arms in iron-red, purple, blue and gilt, the shaped oval stands similarly decorated with undulating pierced galleries enclosing a pink flowerhead and Schwarzlot and gilt scrolls, gilt line rims (one gallery with very small piece lacking and two hairline cracks), circa 1730
the stands 20.5cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collection by Otto Blohm, no. 67 for a similarly shaped example but with a different Cardinal's arms and its identical companion in the Ostereichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, illustrated Wilhelm Mrazek, Wiener Porzellan aus der Manufaktur Du Paquiers (1718-1744), pl. 31; another example sold Christie's Geneva, 12 May 1980, lot 102

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