Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold

Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold

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A DU PAQUIER SMALL BALUSTER VASE CIRCA 1725-30

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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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A DU PAQUIER SMALL BALUSTER VASE CIRCA 1725-30


of baluster form, applied in full relief with a sinuous dragon entwined around the cylindrical neck, the body painted with a continuous scene in green, iron-red, purple, blue and grey with two Chinoiserie figures and a pavilion in a fenced garden, painted flower in iron-red to underside.

Height: 4¾ in.

12.1 cm

Sotheby's New York, November 12, 1999, lot 60

Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 383, p. 723, illus.

Two similar 'dragon vases' are illustrated by Elizabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk (ed.), Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718-1744, Vienna, 1994, p. 120, nos. 136 and 137, the second of which was formerly in the collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. New York, October 10, 1961, lot 689. A particularly close example painted with the same scene as the present example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gifted by R. Thornton Wilson in 1955, acc. 55.147.