A Du Paquier tobacco jar. Circa 1730.

Of cruciform section, each side painted with a landscape vignette depicting a chinoiserie figure facing flowering branches issuing from a pagoda on stylised rockwork, the narrow ends with flowering branches growing from stylised rockwork by a fence, each corner with two scroll and strapwork motifs, the inside rim with blue saw-tooth border against a green striped ground, 10.8cm high (cracked, two small flat chips inside rim, lacking cover) - Estimate: £2,000 - 2,500 - Unsold.

Provenance: The Zorensky Collection. A tobacco jar of similar form is illustrated by Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier (1994), no. 67

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