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CIRCA 1730
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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TABLE-BELL
CIRCA 1730
The domed body decorated with shaped red and gilt diaper panels about the base of the handle, enclosed below by purple foliate scrolls suspending purple tasselled swags alternating with panels with baskets of flowers and edged with red foliate scrolls centred above by blue lambrequins and suspending husks below, above a gilt scroll and line border and scalloped red line rim, the baluster handle stem with red and gilt strapwork panels enclosing coloured shells, the finial with interlocking red scrolls below a scalloped purple border and gilt knop, the interior with a porcelain clapper painted with flowerheads and attached to a gilt-metal chain (minute wear)
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1730
The domed body decorated with shaped red and gilt diaper panels about the base of the handle, enclosed below by purple foliate scrolls suspending purple tasselled swags alternating with panels with baskets of flowers and edged with red foliate scrolls centred above by blue lambrequins and suspending husks below, above a gilt scroll and line border and scalloped red line rim, the baluster handle stem with red and gilt strapwork panels enclosing coloured shells, the finial with interlocking red scrolls below a scalloped purple border and gilt knop, the interior with a porcelain clapper painted with flowerheads and attached to a gilt-metal chain (minute wear)
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 688 (0 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), col. pl. 10, no. 30.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.