Dish with tree, flowers, and birds
Vienna|Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period
ca. 1722–23 · Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This large twelve-sided dish was originally part of the first service made by the Du Paquier factory—also regarded as the first porcelain dinner service produced in Europe. The decoration of birds in flowering branches was a popular theme in East Asian decorative arts.
- Artist
- Vienna|Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period
- Date
- ca. 1722–23
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze
- Culture
- Austrian, Vienna
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995
