A Vienna porcelain déjeuner with views of Italy
Comprising an octagonal tray with pierced rim, two cylindrical pots, two cups and saucers, and one two-handled bowl. Painted with delicate panoramas in gilt surrounds. Blue "bindenschild" mark, year stamps 800 and 801, dreher's numbers 31, 39, 42 and 47, impressed U. H coffee pot 13.6, W of tray 39.2 cm.
Vienna, Imperial porcelain manufactory under Konrad von Sorgenthal, fired 1800 and 1801, decorated soon after.
The depictions show views of Lake Trasimeno, Perugia, possibly the Lago di Pontecosti, Umbria, the Tiber, and the Tivoli. The depiction on the tray labelled "Le Temple de la Sybille à Tivoli", the large coffee pot "Le Lac de Piede Lugo.", the smaller "Le pont d´Auguste à Narni" after Abraham Louis Ducros (1748 - 1810), the cups "La Ville de Perouse" and "Borghetto et Ponte Felice", the saucers "Le Lac de Perouse" and "Village près de Castello Nuovo". All these places were famous and popular stations of the Grand Tour. The long educational sojourn was made by many young members of the Northern European aristocracy and upper classes, but also led many artists through the Rhineland and Switzerland to Italy throughout the 16th to late 19th century.
Provenance
Lower Saxon private collection.
Literature
A similar déjeuner in: Mrazek/Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan, Vienna, undated, no. 625.