Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 78
A Du Paquier chocolate beaker, circa 1730-35
3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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Raphael Machiels
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Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
A Du Paquier chocolate beaker, circa 1730-35
Painted with a scene depicting mythological figures within a frame of iron-red and gilt lines, he rims and handle silvered, 7.7cm high, incised Z (tiny chip to rim edge)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, sold in these rooms, 5 July 2018, lot 142 (with its matching saucer)
A similar chocolate cup and saucer from the same service, formerly in the Georg Tillmann Collection, Hamburg, is in the Imhoff-Stollwerck Museum (published by E. Sturm-Bednarczyk (ed.), Claudius Innocentius de Paquier, 1994, no. 107). Two two-handled beakers and saucers from the same service were in the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection (sold by Sotheby's London, 10 October 1961, lots 682 and 683).
