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A VIENNA TOPOGRAPHICAL GOLD-GROUND CABINET-PLATE
Lot 607

A VIENNA TOPOGRAPHICAL GOLD-GROUND CABINET-PLATE

1818, BLUE SHIELD MARK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS INCLUDING DATE CODE 818 AND 32, TITLED IN BLACK SCRIPT

Closed31 May 2012

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A VIENNA TOPOGRAPHICAL GOLD-GROUND CABINET-PLATE
1818, BLUE SHIELD MARK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS INCLUDING DATE CODE 818 AND 32, TITLED IN BLACK SCRIPT
Painted with a view named on the reverse in black script, Vue d'une partie du fauxbourg Leopoldstadt vers le bain de Diane: à Vienne., with barges on a river with buildings and figures on the banks and low hills in the distance, within a canted rectangular frame tooled with a garland of ivy, the rim with a band of Vitruvian scrolls issuing foliage between matt-gilt bands (some minor wear and small scratches to gold ground)
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

See Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, 'Wiener Porzellan 1718 - 1864', Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, 1970, p. 179, pl. 699, for a related topographical cabinet-plate with a view of the Klosterneubourg Priory, near Vienna, and pl. 697a for a dejeuner tray signed Schufrid. Another plate, also signed, dated 1818 and painted with a view of Schloss Belvedere, was sold in these Rooms on 8 June 2008, lot 24, and seven further unsigned examples dating between 1816 and 1821 were sold in these Rooms on 7 July 2003, lots 63-69.