The Eighteenth-Century Table

After Meissen, the Du Paquier factory in Vienna was the second in Europe to start producing hard or “real” porcelain. Founded in 1718 thanks to the business skills of a court official, Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, in just a few years it was turning out a whole variety of shapes for dinner services, adorned with characteristic Baroque ribbon and interlacing motifs, and exquisite “European flower” and “Indian flower” decorations.