CIRCA 1725

Details

A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) MINIATURE GOBLET
CIRCA 1725
The bell-shaped bowl painted with a chinoiserie figure and a bird beside a rock and flowering plants, on a knopped stem and concial foot painted with flowers and a band of iron-red scrolls and lines (restored rim chip and two minute rim chips)
2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 5th December 1994, lot 261

Literature

Meredith Chilton et al., Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Stuttgart, 2009), Vol. III, p. 1308, no. 362

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Chilton ibid, p. 1308, where she notes that the function of this miniature goblet is unknown, and refers to an eyebath from the Goldblatt Collection in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham (inv. 1988.404/Cer).

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