THE PORCELAIN 1725-1730, THE COVER WITH MARK OF F. FRANZ RUMWOLF FOR 1820.

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A SILVER-MOUNTED VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) SMALL TANKARD (WALZENKRUG)
The porcelain 1725-1730, the cover with mark of F. Franz Rumwolf for 1820.
Cylindrical with strap handle, painted with a continuous Chinoiserie landscape in strong black enriched in gilt, the spiral-molded domed cover inset with a coin, one side with a portrait of Maria-Theresia with maker's initials S.F. and inscribed around the circumfrence R^.IMP^.^HU.^BO^.REG^.M^.THERESIA A^. D^. G, the reverse with the double-headed eagle and arms of Austria and inscribed around the circumfrence BURG^.CO^.TYR^.17 AO^. X ARCHID^. AVST^. DUX^</I>
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

See J. F. Hayward, Weiner Porzellan, Vienna, 1970, plate 28a and Sammlung Karl Mayer, 1928, abb. 3 for similarly painted examples; also Elizabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan de Früzeit 1718-1744, Vienna, 1994, pp. 60-61, cat. no. 49 for a similarly painted silver-gilt mounted tankard, the pavilions also with scale-pattern roof tiles.

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