Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 4*
A pair of Du Paquier chargers from the Liechtenstein hunting service, circa 1735
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £37,750 inc. premium
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A pair of Du Paquier chargers from the Liechtenstein hunting service, circa 1735
Each painted by Jakob Helchis in Schwarzlot, the first with a landscape scene depicting a standing figure with two horses by two broken columns on a plinth and a dog in the foreground, the second with two horses and a dog drinking from a fountain with a figure at the rear, signed 'J.H.', the rims with gilt and Schwarzlot strap and scrollwork borders, the reverse of each with three foliate strapwork motifs, 41.6cm and 41.8cm across, applied paper inventory labels with printed numbers 1495 and 1496 and numbered in ink 1 and 2 and 290 and 291 (one with small flat chip to rim at 9 o'clock and small burn mark to border, the second with small flat chip at 5.30 o'clock (visible on both sides), scattered wear to scenes overall) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Amelie Weissberger Collection, Prague (by 1904);
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna (by 1907);
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Placed for safe-keeping in the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum, Vienna, in 1944;
Acquired by the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, in 1947 (inv. nos. Ke8033 and Ke8034);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2015;
Thence by descent
Literature:
G.E. Pazaurek, Alt-Wiener Porzellan: eine Ausstellungsbetrachtung, in Kunstgewerbeblatt, N.F. XV, no. V (1904), p. 85 (one illustrated);
J. Folnescis/E.W. Braun, Geschichte der k.k. Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur (1907), pp. 12 and 24;
F.H. Hofmann, Geschichte der Bayrischen Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg I (1921), ill. 24 (one illustrated);
G.E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler I (1925), p. 235, ill. 205 (one illustrated);
M. Sauerlandt, Zwei Du Paquier-Porzellane von Jacobus Helchis, in Der Kunstwanderer 7/8 (1925-26), p. 316;
I. Schlosser, A Contribution to the Preissler-Anreiter-Helchis Problem, in Apollo (February 1952), p. 42, fig. XI;
J.F. Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period (1952), pl. 40a and b;
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), nos. 126 and 127;
K. Hantschmann, Du Paquier contra Meissen. Frühe Wiener Porzellanservice (1994), cat. no. 6.27a and 6.28a
Exhibited:
Troppau, Kaiser Franz Josef-Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Schlesisches Landesmuseum), Alt-Wiener Porzellan', 16 September-2 November 1903, nos. 65 and 66;
Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Du Paquier contra Meissen. Frühe Wiener Porzellanservice, 9 December 1994-5 March 1995
Two similarly-decorated Du Paquier hunting services - each including two different border patterns - are recorded: the first was originally owned by the Imperial family and was presented by the Empress Maria Theresia to the Benedictine abbey of Sankt Blasien in 1773; the second belonged to the Princes of Liechtenstein. The Sankt Blasien service was moved in the Napoleonic period to another Benedictine abbey in Austria, from where the surviving 54 pieces were sold to the Staatliche Kunstgewerbemuseum (now Museum für angewandte Kunst) in Vienna in 1925 (M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst, Fired by Passion (2009), cat. no. 227).
According to a 1748 inventory of the silver chamber of the Liechtenstein Schloss Feldsberg in southern Moravia, the "black hunting service" comprised 126 pieces: 80 plates, 8 round and 6 oval tureens, 4 sauce boats, 13 small plates, and 7 eight-cornered and 8 oval dishes in two to three sizes. Of these, 24 pieces have survived in the possession of the Prince of Liechtenstein (Chilton/Lehner-Jobst, cat. no. 228). The Liechtenstein archives reveal that less than a tenth of the wares purchased by the Princes from the Du Paquier manufactory has survived in the family's possession (K. Hantschmann, The Art of Dining, in Chilton/Lehner-Jobst, vol. 2, p. 835).
See also footnote to lot 6.
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