CIRCA 1730-35

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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TWO-HANDLED OVAL TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1730-35
Each side centred by large moulded gilt diaper panels surmounted by shells, the foliate sides suspending swags of foliage and flowers between applied rings under the handles, with red and gilt shaped diaper panels edged with purple, blue and green foliage below the rim, a continous band of similar panels connected by scrolls above the footrim, the gilt-edged ear-shaped handles with panels of purple hatching around pierced apertures, the interior with a flower-spray, the domed cover similarly decorated, some leaves and flowers also gilt, the gadrooned gilt knop finial within six shaped panels of dot ornament edged with red strapwork and purple foliage issuing coloured shells and gilt husks (cover with small firing crack at rim which has extended towards centre, finial restuck, tureen with small chip to side of footrim, very slight wear to silvering)
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection
Their daughter, Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 55, no. 46.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a tureen of the same form in the Oesterreichisches Museum für Angewandete, Vienna (Inv. no. Ke.2496) with closely related but slightly different decoration, see J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the du Paquier Period (London, 1952), pl. 52d, and p. 212, where he points out that the other similar service is the Russian Imperial Service. For a Russian Imperial Service tureen, see pl. 50a and also Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718-1744 (Vienna, 1994), p. 66, no. 55; and also Robert Schmidt, op. cit. (Munich, 1953), pl. 22, no. 71.

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