A Du Paquier vase, circa 1725-30

of octagonal baluster form with twin gilt animal-mask handles, flared foot and waisted flared neck, painted in red, green, pink and blue with formal flower vases below affixed tasselled moulded lambrequins filled with dotted trellis, the shoulder with a band of applied rosettes,

The Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, 10th March 1999, lot 327;
The collection of Carl DeSantis

M. Chilton (ed.) Fired by Passion: Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, Stuttgart, 2009, Vol. 3, p. 1324, mentioned.

The top section in good condition with some flaking to the gilding. The foot section has been broken in places and repaired with some associated infilled chips.
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A similar vase with a cover, formerly in the collections of E. and A. Silbermann, Oskar Bondy, and Leopold and Ruth Blumka, is illustrated by E. Sturm-Bednarczyk (ed.), Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Vienna, 1994, pp. 42-43, no. 24; M. Chilton, op. cit., 13:11, cat 428, where it is noted that 'only two examples of this rare form are recorded in literature'.