CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1725-35

Details

A BÖTTGER OR VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) HAUSMALEREI OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1725-35
The interior of the box and cover naïvely painted in purple and red with chinoiserie figures trapping birds in landscape vignettes, the lower part of the box exterior moulded with stiff leaves enriched in green and black and issuing purple and red foliate and husk ornament, the shoulder moulded with a band of coloured and gilded flowerheads, the domed cover similarly moulded with stiff-leaves enclosing two landscape vignettes with mythical beasts about a central moulded flowerhead medallion, gilt band rims (very slight wear to gilding, gilding on underside of footrim mainly worn away)
4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide

Provenance

With Kate Foster
With Michael Booker, 1994
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 12th November 1984, lot 158
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 9th November 1987, lot 89

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Lot Essay

A bowl, cover and stand with related decoration, including decoration on the interior, is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1956), pl. 83, fig. 124 and p. 137, where she notes that the decoration of the piece is derived from drawings and engravings by Elias Baeck (1679-1747), published at Augsburg. Baeck studied in Rome and lived in Venice before returning to Augsburg. An oval sugar-box and cover in the same 12th November 1984 sale, lot 161, had related decoration (also on the interior) attributed to Sabina Wald, and it subsequently entered the Jahn Collection, sold by Lempertz, Cologne, on 12th June 1989, lot 25, where the decoration was attributed to the Auffenwerth workshop, circa 1730.

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