Charles Christophe Windisch, Paris Or Brussels - Large Hard Porcelain Openwork Bowl - Empire, Restoration Period

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Charles Christophe Windisch
Large bowl 
Glazed porcelain, biscuit and enhanced with gilding
Dimensions : H. 27 ; D. 24,5 (cm.)
Paris or Brussels circa 1810 - 1820

An important and fine openwork bowl, probably a centrepiece, resting on a tripod base decorated with palmettes. The flared bowl has a leafy underside and is held by three cherubs. The gilding, glaze and biscuit decoration are alternating to great effect.

Charles Christophe Windisch, from rue de la Roquette to the Royal Manufactory at Ixelles
A talented draughtsman as well as a chemist, he was responsible for the preparatory drawing for this bowl and another that we will be offering for sale shortly. The white was most likely made in the family factory at 102 rue de la Roquette. The dating of the model is fairly precise: it may have been produced entirely in Paris after the 1810s or produced in Paris and then decorated in Brussels before 1830 and the break-up of the partnership between C C Windisch and Faber. In 1824, these two great names founded a highly talented factory in Ixelles, which soon won a royal privilege.

Notes : 
Preparatory drawings in private hands
For a similar bowl, see the Demeuldre collection, successor to the Ixelles factory.

Condition report: good condition, one repair to the gilding, one repair to the wings