A rare Du Paquier double-handled bowl circa 1730-35

each side painted with a shaped rectangular polychrome landscape scene depicting figures and buildings, one with a river, within a gilt frame and enclosed by an elaborate polychrome cartouche heightened in gilding, flanked by shaped trellis panels and tall flower baskets, joined beneath the gilt scroll handles above an iron-red zig-zag border around the footrim, the interior with a bird perched on flowering branches and insects in flight, gilt-edged rims

Anon. sale, Dorotheum Vienna, 28th March 1933, lot 197;
Anon. sale, Dorotheum Vienna, 2nd December 1933, lot 534

The stand of an ecuelle in the Museo Civico, Turin, is painted - apparently by the same hand - with a slightly larger version of the scene with two figures by a river in front of a castle on the present lot. The matching ecuelle and cover are painted with other scenes in the same manner; see E.Sturm-Bednarczyk (ed.), Claudius Innocentius du Paquier Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718-1744, no.118.