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A Du Paquier tobacco box and cover, circa 1730 image 1

A Du Paquier tobacco box and cover, circa 1730 image 2

A Du Paquier tobacco box and cover, circa 1730 image 3

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A Du Paquier tobacco box and cover, circa 1730

Fine European Ceramics Including the Heinrich Rothberger Collection

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A Du Paquier tobacco box and cover, circa 1730

Of rectangular form with fluted corners and moulded with fluted brackets below the rim on the narrow sides (one pierced), painted with European flower sprays between formal Baroque borders of trellis panels flanked by scroll- and strapwork, the cover with a putto finial, the rim and loop at one end silvered, the gilt-edged cover painted with a similar border, applied with a finial in the form of a seated putto holding a gilt staff above his head, one end moulded with a gilt lock through a loop, 17.5cm high, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7742.29407 (chip to rim of box beneath cover) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Arnold and Amelie Weissberger Collection, Prague;
Acquired by Heinrich Rothberger from the above by 1907;
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in October 1940 (inv. no. Ke7742);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent

Literature:
J. Folnesics/E.W. Braun, Geschichte der K.K. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur (1907), pp. 26 and 35; pl. V, no.1 (ill.);
W. Mrazek, Wiener Porzellan aus der Manufaktur Du Paquiers (1952), pl. 16;
J. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period (1952), pl. 47b;
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), pl. 25, no. 84;
M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion (2009), cat. no. 369;
C. Gschiel/U. Nimeth/L. Weidinger (eds.), Schneidern und Sammeln. Die Wiener Famile Rothberger, Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung, vol. 2 (2010), pp. 95-97 (illustrated)

Exhibited:
Troppau, Kaiser Franz Josef-Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Schlesisches Landesmuseum), Ausstellung von Alt-Wiener Porzellan (1718-1864), 16 September-2 November 1903, cat. no. 30;
Vienna, K.K. Oe. Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Ausstellung von Alt-Wiener Porzellan, March-May 1904, cat. no. 141

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