Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 170

A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TWO-HANDLED BEAKER

CIRCA 1725-30

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 6,250

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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TWO-HANDLED BEAKER
CIRCA 1725-30
With two quatrefoil 'rice-pattern' panels with iron-red circles at the intersections within quatrefoil double purple line cartouches, with flower-sprays above and below the angular handles, the interior with an elaborate border of purple husks between iron-red lines divided by scrolls, shaped panels and strapwork below the rim (upper rim worn, minute wear and flaking to enamels)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

Emma-Henriette Schiff von Suvero Collection
Sold to the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1939
Restituted to the Schiff von Suvero descendants, Spring 2003
Schiff von Suvero descendants sale, Christie's, London, 7th July 2003, lot 37

Specialist note

For a beaker made with the same technique in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin (inv. 2702/C), see Meredith Chilton et al., Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier (Stuttgart, 2009), Vol. III, p. 1241, no. 94. For a tureen made with the same technique, see Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, Österreichischer Museum für angewandte Kunst Exhibition Catalogue (Vienna, 1970), pl. 18, fig. 109.