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GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 1
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 2
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 3
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 4
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 5
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 6
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 7
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 8
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 9
GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY image 10
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GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE
A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

The Classics Paris
17 – 18 November 2022, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

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GRANDE ET RARE FIGURE EN PORCELAINE BLANCHE REPRESENTANT L'APOTRE PAUL, VIENNE, TROISIEME QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE

A LARGE AND RARE VIENNA WHITE FIGURE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Clutching his robes and holding a sword, with his right arm raised, standing on a slab base, 47.5cm high, shield mark in underglaze-blue (restoration to fingers and toes)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. Gottfried Eissler (1862-1924), Vienna, by 1904;
Sold from the estate of the above, Auktionshaus für Altertümer Glückselig, Vienna, 6-7 May 1925, lot 221

Literature:
E.W. Braun, Alt-Wiener Porzellan, in Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, VII (1904), pp. 213-214;
J. Folnesics/ E.W. Braun, Geschichte der K.K. Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur (1907), p. 165;
Brigitte Tietzel, Joh. Joachim Kaendlers "Grosse Hofbestellung" für Papst Clemens XIV. und die Wiener Folgen, in Keramos 153 (1996), ill. 17, p. 142

Exhibited:
Vienna, K.K. Oesterreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Alt-Wiener Porzellan, March-May 1904, cat. no. 649

See Brigitte Tietzel (Literature above) for an interesting discussion of the large Vienna altar garniture figures and their relationship to the well-known Meissen garnitures by J.J. Kaendler. Another Vienna example of the Apostle Paul, mounted on a neo-classical socle, is part of an altar garniture including both Meissen and Vienna figures. The author concludes (p. 148) that this garniture is composed of elements of two different gifts: a Meissen garniture given to Pope Clemens XIV, and a Vienna garniture likely given by the Empress Maria Theresia to Pope Pius VI. The Vienna figures are dated to 1778-79 as the altar candlesticks in the garniture have Viennese silver mounted dated 1779. The bases of the Vienna figures have concave sides that differ from the present lot, however, and it is possible that this figure of the Apostle Paul is earlier in date. A different, slightly larger white Vienna figure of the Apostle Paul, dated 1744-49, is in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (inv. no. Ke 6584).

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