A Vienna porcelain teapot with a battle scene - image-1
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Lot 1550 Dα

A Vienna porcelain teapot with a battle scene

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 3.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Vienna porcelain teapot with a battle scene

Squat, bombé-form vessel with a curved handle and spout, the lid missing. Decorated with a finely painted scene of a siege with figures positioning canons and building palisades (presumably after Georg Philipp I Rugendas). Unmarked. With a smooth breakage with an old repair. H 8.9, L from spout to handle 20 cm.
The porcelain Vienna, manufactory of Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, 1730s / around 1740, decor attributed to Ignaz Bottengruber.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Annedore Müller-Hofstede.

Literature

For this form cf. Chilton/Lehner-Jobst (ed.), Fired by Passion. Barockes Wiener Porzellan der Manufaktur Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, vol. 3, Stuttgart 2009, cat. no. 36.
For more on Bottengruber see Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. 1, Leipzig 1925/Reprint Stuttgart 1971, p. 165 ff.