A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) BLUE-GROUND CHINOISERIE BEAKER AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725
The washed underglaze blue ground with silvered flowering branches, reserved with ogival quatrefoil panels painted in iron-red with Oriental figures at discussion taking tea, drinking and playing musical instruments, divided by onion-shaped panels of half flowerheads and foliage, the underside of the saucer with trailing flowering branches (beaker with slight wear to tarnished silvering, crack around base, saucer with silvering largely worn away)
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) BLUE-GROUND CHINOISERIE BEAKER AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725
The washed underglaze blue ground with silvered flowering branches, reserved with ogival quatrefoil panels painted in iron-red with Oriental figures at discussion taking tea, drinking and playing musical instruments, divided by onion-shaped panels of half flowerheads and foliage, the underside of the saucer with trailing flowering branches (beaker with slight wear to tarnished silvering, crack around base, saucer with silvering largely worn away)
