Dish with tree, flowers, and birds

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

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.

Dish with tree, flowers, and birds, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna

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Dish with tree, flowers, and birds, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna
Dish with tree, flowers, and birds, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna

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