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The Carlo Colli Collection of Doccia Porcelain: Part II
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Très rare gobelet à café ou chocolat en porcelaine de Doccia, probablement décoré par Carl Wendelin Anreiter, vers 1740
A very rare Doccia coffee or chocolate beaker, decoration likely by Carl Wendelin Anreiter, circa 1740
A very rare Doccia coffee or chocolate beaker, decoration likely by Carl Wendelin Anreiter, circa 1740
30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€6,000 - €8,000
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Très rare gobelet à café ou chocolat en porcelaine de Doccia, probablement décoré par Carl Wendelin Anreiter, vers 1740
A very rare Doccia coffee or chocolate beaker, decoration likely by Carl Wendelin Anreiter, circa 1740
A very rare Doccia coffee or chocolate beaker, decoration likely by Carl Wendelin Anreiter, circa 1740
The bell-shaped chicchera, decorated on both sides with battle scenes after Georg Conrad Bodenher (1673-1719) within a barbed quatrefoil gilt and iron-red frame, the inside rim with a band of green, red, and purple scrollwork accentuated in gilt, 7cm high, incised "4" to base,
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Provenance
With Lukacs-Donath, Rome
Literature
Biancalana, Alessandro, Porcellane Ginori a Doccia. La stanza delle meraviglie di casa Colli, 2023, pp. 352-354, cat. 77
This rare flared beaker, of which there are thought to be only four other known examples with similar decoration and shape, is decorated with a battle scene on either side after engravings by Georg Conrad Bodenher (1673-1719) from the series Reiter und Gefechte ("Knights and Battles"), taken from drawings by Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder (1666-1742). A folio presenting the series exists in the State Art Collections at Dresden (SKD), inv. A 11023. Biancalana (op.cit., p. 352) attributes the decoration on the cup to the hand of Carl Wendelin Anreiter (1702-1747), on account of the beaker's similarities in subject and execution to wares made at Meissen and Du Paquier and its date, which coincides with Anreiter's tenure at Doccia (beginning in 1737) following his stint at the Du Paquier factory in Vienna. Three other beakers from the series are illustrated in J. Kräftner (ed.), Baroque Luxury Porcelain, 2005, nos. 209 and 210, where it is noted (p. 360) that the series must have been destined, possibly even the Holy Roman Emperor and Grad Duke of Tuscany, Franz Stephan.