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A Vienna blue-ground two-handled ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1775-80
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
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A Vienna blue-ground two-handled ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1775-80
The blue ground with a gilt caillouté pattern reserved with panels, probably painted by Georg Lamprecht, depicting alternating scenes of putti and trophies emblematic of the arts on the stand, two panels with putti on the ecuelle and two with trophies on the cover, within floral cartouches in two tones of gilding with seeded and trellis scrollwork panels, gilt-edged scroll handles, the stand: 22.8cm diam.; the ecuelle: 19.5cm across handles, shield marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals 40 on the stand (probably for Joseph Tomasch) and 7 on the ecuelle (for Anton Fuchs) (very minor wear and some discolouration to gilding on stand, small retouched flat chip to rim of stand) (3)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstmuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in October 1940 (inv. no. Ke7755);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent
Literature:
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), no. 580;
W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, exhibition catalogue (1982), no. 102
Exhibited:
East Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, May-October 1982