Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 20
Two Doccia cutlery handles, circa 1750
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £562.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Two Doccia cutlery handles, circa 1750
Decorated in polychrome colours with Baroque scroll- and strapwork ornament after Du Paquier models, mounted with a fork and knife, the handles: 7.2cm long (some rubbing) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Christie's London, 11 April 1988, lot 133 (the fork);
The Collection of Eveline Newgas
Cutlery handles are mentioned in the archives of the Doccia factory as early as 1743, and by 1750, there were three main styles of decoration: "Indian flowers", "Chinese figures" and "Grotesques"; see Andreina d'Agliano, The Early Years of the Doccia Porcelain Manufactory and Viennese Decorative, Graphic and Chromatic Influence, in J. Kräftner/C. Lehner-Jobst/A. d'Agliano (eds.), Baroque Luxury Porcelain (2005), pp. 77ff. and cat. no. 149.
