Claudius Innocentius du Paquier

Exhibited by Galerie Neuse

Material Porcelain, polychrome painting, silver-gilt base

Dimensions 29 cm (h)

Place of Creation Vienna

Status Vetted

About the Work

This astounding masterpiece dates from the earliest days of European porcelain production: a rare polychrome ‘pilgrim flask’ for keeping tea, wine or apothecary substances from the Viennese manufactory of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier. In 1718, a mere eight years later than the first porcelain factory in Meissen, du Paquier opened his workshop in Vienna where he devised new on-glaze colours.

This particular work owes its magnificent yellow and orange tones to a modified Italian majolica technique. In combination with a blue-green glass phase, it allowed a range from olive to grass green, hitherto unachievable.

Johann Gregorius Höroldt, a highly gifted young painter in Vienna, used the new colours adapting Japanese flower branch motifs of the kind found on kakiemon porcelains to form his characteristic style.

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Provenance

Dorotheum, Vienna, sale Nr. 432 (1933) and 566 (1934)
Collection Oscar Bondy, Vienna, restituted by 9.12.1948 to Elisabeth Bondy
Collection Leopold Blumka, New York
C. Bednarczyk, Vienna
Private Collection, Bavaria

Literature

• John Forrest Hayward, Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period, London 1952, Tafel 22
• Wilhelm Mrazek, Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718 – 1864, Wien 1970
• Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, C.I. du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718-1744, Wien 1994, S. 46, Nr. 28 (Foto ist seitenverkehrt)
• Fired by Passion. Barockes Wiener Porzellan der Manufaktur Claudius
Innocentius Du Paquier, Bd. 3, Hg. Meredith Chilton, Hartford und Stuttgart 2009, S. 1251, Kat. Nr. 134 (Vergleichsstück ohne silbervergoldete Montierung)