Lot 13: A RARE AND IMPORTANT DU PAQUIER TULIP VASECIRCA 1725

in the manner of Ignaz Preissler, painted in black and iron-red, heightened in gilding, on one side of the ovoid body with a fashionably dressed lady seated holding a lute beside two cherubs supporting a basket of fruit and on the other with a lady seated caressing a child beside a vase of flowers on a circular table above a foliate scrollwork border around the stepped rectangular base, set across the top with five flared ribbed spouts painted with further scrollwork and affixed on either side with a camel's head handle.
height 10 in.
25.4 cm