AN IMPORTANT VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) TWO-HANDLED OVAL TUREEN AND COVER
circa 1740, from the Liechtenstein service, painted in Schwarzlot and lightly enriched with gilding, the tureen of ogee form with moulded scroll handle, the sides painted with game birds on a strapwork border, centred by shells and enriched with gilding, the interior with a bird in flight, flowers and a spider, the domed cover with game birds and dogs beneath similar strapwork around the cone finial, within a quatrefoil and lozenge border, 20cm high x 35cm wide
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£2,000 - £4,000
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£4,700 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance: A. Lewis, New York, June 1950, $900,
Collection of Frederick J. And Antoinette H. Van Slyke, Baltimore, U.S.A,
Sotheby’s New York, 26th September 1989,
Christie’s, 12th May 2010, lot 167,
Roy Byrnes Children’s Trust,
The collection of the late Anthony du Boulay FSA (1929-2022),
and thence by descent.
Exhibited: The Baltimore Museum of Art, loan, 30th March 1964 - 2nd October 1969.
