A Du Paquier tobacco jar c.1730, the generous cylindrical body painted in an extended Kakiemon palette with flowering branches issuing from holey roots beside a bamboo fence, the reverse with a smaller vignette of flowering plants, 17cm. Provenance: from the collection of Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020). Mrs Jerome Stonborough van Slyke Collection. Exhibited: The Lichtenstein Museum, Vienna, Baroque Luxury Porcelain, The Manufactories of Du Paquier in Vienna and Carlo Ginori in Florence, 2005/6, ill. 233, no. 42.

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