CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY

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TWO VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) SILVER-GILT MOUNTED FLASKS
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Of hexagonal section, each facet divided by fluted corners and with a chamfered upper edge, the first painted with birds in flight above flowering shrubs above a reticulated lower part with pierced oval panels flanked by smaller circular and tear-shaped apertures surrounded by iron-red and green foliage, the other flask with similar shrubs below two birds and enriched in gilding, the lower part with similar apertures but the foliage iron-red, the undersides of both with reticulated roundels, the domed upper parts with pierced gilt-metal mounts with trellis panels enclosed by foliage scrolls suspending husks, the cylindrical screw-top covers chased with scrolls about flowerheads (lower part of second with restoration and minute chip to upper edge of one facet, both with losses to mounts, necks probably reduced, firing faults)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) and 6 in. (15.3 cm.) high overall (2)

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Lot Essay

The form of these flasks do not appear to be recorded. The plain, un-decorated domed upper parts were clearly designed to be mounted. A bowl cover illustrated by J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the du Period (London, 1952), pl. 31b, has a central circular area left plain in a similar way, and the gold mounts are also pierced. The mounts on the present flasks are also related to those on four flasks from a toilet-set (with a du Paquier casket), formerly in the Hermitage, Redlich and Blumka Collections and now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. For an illustration of this toilet-set, see Hayward loc. cit, pl. 54 and Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Vienna, 1994), pp. 72-73.

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