porcelain, 8 items: 1 serving tray 24 x 32.5 cm, 1 coffee jug with cover height 17 cm, 1 milk jug with cover height 14.5 cm, 1 sugar basket height 6 cm, length 12.5 cm, 2 cups and 2 saucers height 5.5 cm, Ø 13.5 cm, bodies with gilt rims, tray with pierced gallery, light blue scale borders with gilt rims, brightly painted strewn flowers and floral bouquets, reserves with polychrome-painted landscapes, tray with fine polychrome-painted bucolic scene, the shepherdess showing the shepherd a bird flapping its wings, leaning against an open birdcage, on a tree branch hangs a purple garland of roses with an orange ribbon, in the meadow a cow and sheep grazing, in the left foreground lie bagpipes, a hat, fruit and an upturned basket of flowers, to the right, signed Lamprecht pinx, saucer with standing shepherd holding a shepherds’ crook in his left hand with a seated shepherdess, holding a garland of roses in her left hand with which to adorn a sheep, to one side her hat and shepherd’s crook, on the cups shepherdesses playing with begging dogs, and shepherds playing the flute for rams, to the milk jug shepherdess with distaff, basket and jug, to the reverse young shepherd, adorning his sheep with a garland of flowers, to one side lie bagpipes, hat and basket, to the coffee jug, a seated shepherdess, speaking to her dog, to the reverse shepherd playing bagpipes with animals listening, gilt-accented turned twig handle with gilt foliate terminals, cover and basket with sculptural branches in flower to finial and green basket handles, some restoration, case to exterior covered with gilt velour, metal corners, plaque with monogram G. G. D. R and 9-pronged crown, to either side handles, interior compartments lined with dark blue silk and cushions, traces of wear, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, underglaze blue shield mark, circa 1775, turner N Franz Schwaiger 1762-1804 etc., the earliest known déjeuner painting (Ru)

Lit. cf.: Folnesics-Braun, Geschichte der K. K. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur, Vienna 1907, p. 95, ill., from the Dr. Max Strauß Collection, circa 1797;
cf.: Karl Mayer, Wiener Porzellan Sammlung, Vienna 1928, plate 66, cat. no. 202, date mark 1791;
W. Mrazek, W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718–1864, MAK Vienna 1970, p. 42: Georg Lamprecht, figure painter, 1772–1779, and 1787–1825 at the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory, 1779–1787 travelling, 1783 at the Clignancourt Manufactory, Paris, 1784–1787 in Sèvres, from 1787 in Vienna again;
lit. cf.: E. Sturm Bednarczyk, Claudia Jobst, Vienna 2000, Wiener Porzellan des Klassizismus, die Ära Conrad von Sorgenthal 1784–1805, pp. 146–149;
cf.: Glass and Porcelain catalogue, auction 11.4.2005, Dorotheum Vienna, p. 67, cat. no. 176;