Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. K. Berling, Meissen China, An Illustrated History, p. 91, fig. 229, for a similar example
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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED PLUM-GROUND CAMPANA VASE
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The everted rim with olive green lappets enriched with gilt scrolls and edges above a wide panel painted in colours with a continuous Bacchic revel or a dark-brown ground between olive green looped borders gilt with foliage, flanked by rope handles terminating in gilt foliage, the lower section with arched panels gilt with foliage above a flaring circular base with olive green and gilt anthemion and lappets--11¾in. (30cm.) high
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The everted rim with olive green lappets enriched with gilt scrolls and edges above a wide panel painted in colours with a continuous Bacchic revel or a dark-brown ground between olive green looped borders gilt with foliage, flanked by rope handles terminating in gilt foliage, the lower section with arched panels gilt with foliage above a flaring circular base with olive green and gilt anthemion and lappets--11¾in. (30cm.) high