STYLE: Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics

A Vienna porcelain gold-ground topographical déjeurner, 1816

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November 13, 04:39 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Vienna porcelain gold-ground topographical déjeurner

1816

painted with topographical views of palaces, the tray with a cityscape of Vienna, signed Schufeid.1816. (sic.), within rectangular panels with canted corners, enriched and burnished in matte gilding with borders of lion-masked and leaves, the burrnished gilt-ground reserved with bands of lozenges, comprising:

a tall ovoid ewer painted with a view titled Vue du château I.R. de Schlofshof / du côté du jardin, en Hongrie. 21cm. high; 8 1/4 in.

a smaller example painted with a view titled Vue du château de Plaisance I.R. / à Hetzendorf près de Vienne. 18.5cm. high; 7 1/4 in.

a footed navette-shaped sugar bowl, 11cm. high, 4 1/4 in.

two cups and saucers, one cup painted with Vue de Gloriètte, / au jardin I.R. de / Schoenbrunn., the saucer with Entrée au château I.R. de / Schoenbrunn; the other cup with Vue du château / gothique, dans le / jardin I.R. à / Laxembourg. , the saucer titled Vue du château de Plaisance, et du jar / din I.R. à Laxembourg près de Vienne.

the tray titled Vue de la ville de Vienne, de ses fauxbourgs & environs, prise du château du Belvédère. 40cm. wide, 16 5/8 in.

blue shield marks, impressed and incised marks and date codes 816, titled in black script

the tray 42cm, 16½ in wide

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An almost identical service, the Property of the Royal House of Hanover was sold by Sotheby's, Marienburg Palace, 9th October 2005, lot 2345 and again as part of the Twinight Collection, sale Lempertz, Berlin, 7th November 2018, lot 89. Bearing date marks for 1816 and 1817 it is production was nearly contemporary to the present service. Another similar déjeurner also signed Schufried and dated 1818 is in the collection of the MAK in Vienna (inv. no. KHL 267). The use of a blue and white chequered border to the wares suggests it was made to celebrate the marriage of the Franz II Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia to Princess Karoline Auguste of Bavaria on 29th October 1816.