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Lot 242 Dα

A Royal Vienna porcelain vase and saucer with parrot motifs

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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A Royal Vienna porcelain vase and saucer with parrot motifs

Decorated with exotic birds perched on branches above gold and lustrework brackets. Blue bindenschild mark, 87. in black, year stamp 807, pressnummer 59. H 14.8, D plate 19.1 cm.
Imperial Vienna Porcelain Manufactory under Matthias Niedermayer, 1807, decor by Franz Solnek.

The "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux" by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard and Louis-Gabriel Léopold Charles Amé Bexon, which was published in nine volumes in Paris from 1770 onwards, is a possible model for the finely painted depictions of birds.

Provenance

North German private collection.

Literature

A similar decorative concept used in a table centrepiece and saucer in the Macek collection published in Thun-Hohenstein/Franz (ed.), 300 Jahre Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur, Vienna-Stuttgart 2018, p. 212.