Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 2*
A Du Paquier bourdaloue, circa 1735
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £106,500 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Du Paquier bourdaloue, circa 1735
The decoration attributed to Jakob Helchis, painted on each side with a putto and a monkey within an elaborate purple scroll- and strapwork frame incorporating iron-red flowers and embellished with squirrels and birds, the front moulded with a mask below a gilt scroll enclosed by swags and puce scrollwork, the handle moulded with a scroll thumb-piece, painted with trellis panels and flowers, the inside with Oriental flower sprigs, gilt-edged rims, 23.5cm across, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7517.20969 (very minor wear to gilding)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna (by 1907);
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in May 1939 (inv. no. Ke7517);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent
Literature:
J. Folnesics/E.W. Braun, Geschichte der K.K. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur (1907), pp. 24 and 27, p. 34 ill.;
W. Mrazek, Wiener Porzellan aus der Manufaktur Du Paquiers (1952), pl. 48;
J. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period (1952), pl. 57b;
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), pl. 23, no. 143, b;
W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, exhibition catalogue (1982), no. 37;
E. Sturm-Bednarczyk (ed.), Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier (1994), no. 97;
M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion (2009), cat. no. 402;
C. Gschiel/U. Nimeth/L. Weidinger (eds.), Schneidern und Sammeln. Die Wiener Familie Rothberger, Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung, vol. 2 (2010), pp. 97-99 (illustrated);
Exhibited:
East Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, May-October 1982
The attribution to Helchis is based on anatomical and stylistic similarities to the putti on the two small ecuelles signed in full by Helchis (in the British Museum (Chilton/Lehner-Jobst, cat. no. 329) and lot 6 in this sale).
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