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Lot 5 Dα

A Vienna porcelain cup and saucer with Etruscan vases

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.125 € (incl. premium)
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A Vienna porcelain cup and saucer with Etruscan vases

With underglaze cobalt blue ground (Leithnerblau). Of cylindrical form with angular handle and original saucer. The cup decorated with two and the saucer with three reserves painted with ancient Greek black figure vases and cornucopia against gilt ground alternating with stylised flowers in gilt ovals. Blue "bindenschild" mark, brown 103 with dash, year stamps 89 and 96, dreher's number 39.
Vienna, Imperial porcelain manufactory under Konrad von Sorgenthal, fired 1789 and 1796, painted by Leopold Parmann.

Josef Leithner (1770 - 1829) was a painter at the Imperial manufactory. He studied at the Vienna academy before becoming a flower painter and then an arcanist. In 1792 he developed the pigment "Leithnerblau", and one year later the gilding technique "Leithnergold". He received numerous prizes in honour of his technical achievements for the manufactory.

Provenance

Dorotheum Vienna, 9th December 2010, lot 179.