Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 76
A rare Du Paquier beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Du Paquier beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35
Painted with ducks in flight and on landscape vignettes with flowers, the rims with pink-ground zig-zag borders reserved with flower-heads and foliage, incised z to saucer (2)
Footnotes
The design on this rare example - only one other of the type is recorded - is probably based on a Chinese 'famille verte' pattern, although the palette is closer to Chinese 'famille rose'. A Meissen teapot and tea canister in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, decorated with a related design of ducks, along with the Chinese dish on which the pattern is based, is illustrated by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), II, cat. no. 380. The similarly decorated Du Paquier teabowl and saucer in the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection is illustrated by M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst, Fired by Passion (2009), III, cat. no. 52.
