Lot 37. A very rare Du Paquier circular dish, circa 1720-25. Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 (€10,000 - 15,000). Photo: Bonhams.

Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red, purple and green with Oriental flowers issuing from pierced rockwork within concentric circles in the centre, within a lambrequin and trellis-panel border and trailing flowers within a zig-zag border around the silver-edged rim, three flower sprigs to reverse, 33.6cm diam. 

Provenance: Ernst Blumka (1886-1969), Vienna (to 1938) and London;
Thence by descent;
The Collection of Eveline Newgas

Note: Only two similar dishes are recorded in the literature: in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger (inv. Sp.P.E. 4435), acquired in 1890 from the Dresden collector, Dr. Carl Spitzner (see M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst (eds.), Fired by Passion (2009), cat. no. 258; and another illustrated in E. Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit (1994), no. 2.

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS, 15 Jun 2016, 14:00 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET