Tureen and cover
Du Paquier Factory, Vienna
(1718–1744)
about 1730–35
Object PlaceVienna, Austria
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with enamel and gilded decoration
DimensionsHeight: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.); Width: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2006.914a-b
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
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The Viennese factory founded by Claudius du Paquier in 1718 was only the second one in Europe to make true, or hard-paste, porcelain. Decoration for table wares often combined baroque ornament, such as painted trelliswork panels and baldachins (or canopies), with elements inspired by Chinese ceramics-the overscaled knob in the form of a Dog of Fo.
ProvenanceOtto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; July 4, 1960, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 191, probably to Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2006), New York; 2006, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 26, 2006)
