Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 128

A BÖTTGER OR VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) HAUSMALEREI SAUCER

CIRCA 1715-20 OR CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1735-40

Closed12 May 2010

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A BÖTTGER OR VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) HAUSMALEREI SAUCER
CIRCA 1715-20 OR CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION PROBABLY CIRCA 1735-40
Painted in Schwarzlot, perhaps at Bayreuth, by the 'Indian Ink Painter', with figures on a quayside with rowing boats departing, before buildings and towers with hills in the distance within a border of pendant husks from diaper panels flanked by C-scrolls (two small restored chips to underside of rim, slight wear to gilt cartouche)

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 24th February 2003, lot 79

Specialist note

For a discussion of the 'Indian Ink Painter', see Sebastian Kuhn, 'Bayreuth Hausmaler?' in Meredith Chilton et al., Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Stuttgart, 2009), Vol. I, pp. 543-544, where he illustrates other pieces and Vol. III, p. 1234, no. 68, where he lists other known examples. Another un-listed example is the plate in the Syz Collection, see Hans Syz, et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington D.C., 1979), pp. 552-553, no. 371.