CIRCA 1730, THE COVER LATER

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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) RECTANGULAR TEACADDY AND A GILT-METAL COVER
CIRCA 1730, THE COVER LATER
Painted in puce enriched with the Sgraffito technique with gallant musicians and companions in rural landscapes within manganese and puce line and gilt band rectangular cartouches with canted corners, the flat shoulder with dark-purple interlocking scrolling acanthus strapwork enclosing gilt palmettes at the corners, on four short tapering feet (very slight wear to gilt cartouches, one cartouche with area of wear, minor flaking to puce enamels, some wear to gilt palmettes)
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) high overall (2)

Provenance

Siegfried Ducret Collection.

Literature

J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period (London, 1952), pl. 7 (b).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See Johann Kräftner et al., Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufacturies of Du Paquier and of Carlo Ginori in Florence Lichtenstein Museum, Vienna, 10th November 2005 - 29th January 2006 Exhibition Catalogue (Munich, 2005), p. 349, pl. 193, for a teapot painted in puce with similar figures, and where Kräftner points out that members of the Court occasionally disguised themselves as rustic farmers. He also refers to the ball at the Balhaus on 27th February 1743, where Maria Theresa is recorded as having been disguised as a country woman (see G. Mraz, Maria Theresia [Munich, 1979], p. 152).

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