
Tulip Vase from a Garniture. Austrian (Vienna), Du Paquier factory, ca. 1725. Hard-paste porcelain. H. 6-3/8 in. (16.2 cm.); W. 8-5/16 in. (21.1 cm.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954 (54.147.94)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna in 1718, was only the second factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese. This small porcelain enterprise developed a highly...
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