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A PAIR OF PARIS (C.C. WINDISCH) PORCELAIN PARCEL-BISCUIT AND GREEN-GROUND RETICULATED BASKETS
- CIRCA 1815

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A PAIR OF PARIS (C.C. WINDISCH) PORCELAIN PARCEL-BISCUIT AND GREEN-GROUND RETICULATED BASKETS
CIRCA 1815
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    $10,000 - $15,000

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Sale 2350
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
21 - 22 October 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





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A PAIR OF PARIS (C.C. WINDISCH) PORCELAIN PARCEL-BISCUIT AND GREEN-GROUND RETICULATED BASKETS
CIRCA 1815
In the Empire style, each pierced navette shaped basket supported by two kneeling addorsed figures of putti holding quivers, the conforming base gilt with a rosette within a laurel band, raised on four paw feet
12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide (2)

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See Michel Bloit, Trois Siècles de Porcelaine de Paris, Paris, 1988, pp. 84-85 for a circular basket supported on the head of a putto from the same mold as those supporting the present pair, identified as from the workshop of C.C. Windisch, in business as both a porcelain manufacturer and decorator at 102 rue de la Roquette from 1813-1818.

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