An important pair of Vienna porcelain cups with a double portrait

An important pair of Vienna porcelain cups with a double portrait

Cylindrical form with original saucers. Decorated with round medallions depicting a couple en grisaille. Blue "bindenschild" mark, year stamp 99.
Imperial Vienna Manufactory under Konrad von Sorgenthal, 1799.

Provenance

The Bloch-Bauer Collection, sold auction house "Kärtnerstrasse" Vienna from 16 to 21 June 1941, lot 198. According to information from Mrs. Sturm-Bednarczyk acquired in the 1980s directly by the heirs and sold by her to our consignor.
Purchased from Kunsthandel Bednarczyk, Vienna.

Literature

Illus. in: Ernst, Wiener Porzellan des Klassizismus, Zurich-Wien-Leipzig 1925, pl. XLII, no. 198.
Illus. in: Sturm-Bednarczyk/Jobst, Wiener Porzellan des Klassizismus, Vienna 2000, no. 116.