Lot Essay
A teabowl and saucer from this service is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A pair of teabowls and saucers from this service were sold by Christie's Geneva on 10th November 1986, lot 63.
CIRCA 1725, TEABOWL WITH IMPRESSED QUARTERED CIRCLE TO FOOTRIM
Details
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725, TEABOWL WITH IMPRESSED QUARTERED CIRCLE TO FOOTRIM
Painted in a pale palette, the frieze of the teabowl with circular panels painted with Oriental figures alternating with birds, joined by gilt lines centred by lozenges and husks, the lower part moulded with up-turned flowering shrubs edged with a puce line, the interior with a flowerhead, the saucer with three similar large oval panels of figures about a central flowerhead medallion, the underside similarly moulded below small oval panels of flowers
CIRCA 1725, TEABOWL WITH IMPRESSED QUARTERED CIRCLE TO FOOTRIM
Painted in a pale palette, the frieze of the teabowl with circular panels painted with Oriental figures alternating with birds, joined by gilt lines centred by lozenges and husks, the lower part moulded with up-turned flowering shrubs edged with a puce line, the interior with a flowerhead, the saucer with three similar large oval panels of figures about a central flowerhead medallion, the underside similarly moulded below small oval panels of flowers
Provenance
Else Arnhold Collection, Dresden 1974, no. IX/273 (collection sticker)
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19th October 1994, lot 444
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19th October 1994, lot 444
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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