porcelain, circular body, domed cover with lavish decor of colourfully painted flower branches, iron-red and gold edge, the base of the cover and body with polychromed and gold-painted frieze of mosaic decorations, 4 volute feet and heightened with purple and gold, both the inside and underside with large polychrome painted Indian blooming branches, height 10 cm, diameter 15.5 cm
Vienna, underglaze blue mark c. 1950, form no. 781, decoration 6299, painter no. 52 Breideneichen Isabella 1945–1963 (Ru)

Lit. cf.:
Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718–1744, Vienna 1994, p. 77, cat. no. 67, tobacco pot with cover c. 1730–35, decoration and “Deutsche Blumen”;
Lit. cf.: Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Barocker Luxus Porzellan, Die Manufakturen Du Paquier in Wien und Carlo Ginori in Florenz, ed. by Johann Kräftner 2006, with Claudia Lehner-Jobst and Andreina d’Agliano, pp. 82–83, ill. 4, lidded tureen with leaf and strapwork, c. 1730, Villa Cagnola;
Lit. cf.: MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN FOUNDATION FOR THE DECORATIVE ART; FIRED BY PASSION BAROCKES WIENER PORZELLAN DER MANUFAKTUR CLAUDIUS INNOCENTIUS DU PAQUIER, WEST HARTFORD USA; Stuttgart 2009, Du Paquier oil pot without cover, 1730–1735, p. 242, cat. no. ill. 3.15, “Deutsche Blumen”;