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A Du Paquier armorial vase, circa 1730-35
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
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A Du Paquier armorial vase, circa 1730-35
Painted with the marriage arms of the von Er and von Tzöchaw families and finely-painted European flowers above a moulded foliate border above the footrim embellished in gilding, green, puce and blue, the knopped neck moulded with a band of foliate motifs edged in gilding and purple above a painted band of alternating trellis and seeded scrollwork panels, painted with similar European flowers below a band of gilt-edged, moulded scrollwork motifs below the gilt-edged rim, the top edge and inside of the rim painted with a green, blue and puce floral and geometric border, 29cm high, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7524.28976 (scattered spots of flaking to green enamel)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna (by 1904);
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in May 1939 (inv. no. Ke7524);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent
Literature:
W. Mrazek, Wiener Porzellan aus der Manufaktur Du Paquiers (1952), pp. 9, 16, pl. 19;
H. Kräftner (ed.), Baroque Luxury Porcelain (2005), no. 68;
M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion (2009), cat. no. 437b
Exhibited:
Vienna, K.K. Oe. Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Alt-Wiener Porzellan, March-May 1904, no. 158;
Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, Barocker Luxus Porzellan. Die Manufakturen Du Paquier in Wien und Carlo Ginori in Florenz, 10 November 2005-29 January 2006
Part of a five-vase garniture, each with the arms of the Thuringian family, von Er, and the von Tzöchaw family of Meissen: the central vase is in the Art Institute of Chicago, another flanking vase of the same form as the present lot is in a German private collection, and the two, smaller outside vases are in the Museo Civico in Turin (a reconstruction of the garniture is published by G. Zelleke, Gifts, Diplomacy and Foreign Trade, in Chilton/Lehner-Jobst, ill. 11:47. A two-handled tray with the same arms has also survived (Chilton/Lehner-Jobst, cat. no. 434).