RARE "HAUSMALER" LIDDED EWER Du Paquier, ca. 1725-30.

Cylindrical ewer, painted in iron-red with a circumferential mythological scene with Bacchus and Ariadne. The handle decorated with foliage and a strapwork motif, and pierced on both ends, for mounting. Domed lid with a similar scene, pierced for mounting.
H 17 cm.

Provenance:
- Christie's London, 28 October 1963, Lot No. 145.
- Winifred Williams Antiques, Eastbourne, England.
- Sotheby's London, 8 June 1999, Lot No. 62.
- The Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla Collection, Sotheby's London, 14 March 2012, Lot No. 158.
- Aristocratic private collection, Southern Germany.

Comparable bacchanalia in iron-red camaïeu can be found painted on Viennese porcelain by the "Hausmaler" Ignaz Bottengruber and Carl Ferdinand von Wolfsburg from Wrocław (G. Pazaurek, Hausmaler, I, pp. 165ff. and 193ff.).