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Lot 23*

A Doccia chocolate cup and saucer, circa 1760

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,785 inc. premium

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A Doccia chocolate cup and saucer, circa 1760

The cup moulded in low relief with Apollo in his chariot, and Diana and her nymphs, the saucer with moulded swags and shell-shaped shields, all embellished in polychrome enamels and gilding, applied with a handle of entwined branches, the saucer similarly moulded and coloured with scroll- and strapwork cartouches enclosing a shell hung with floral swags, gilt-edged rims, the beaker: 7cm high; the saucer: 13.5cm diam. (one leaf of handle missing, haircrack to base of handle, two small retouched flat chips to rim of cup, minor flaking to gilt rim of saucer) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Offered for sale at Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, lot 734;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für angewandte Kunst), Vienna, from the auctioneer Adolf Weinmüller, Vienna, in October 1939 (inv. no. Ke7532);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2006;
Thence by descent

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