A MEISSEN ROCOCO MOULDED VASE AND COVER after the original model by J. J. Kändler and J. F. Eberlein, the tapering ogee-shaped body painted en grisaille with a portrait medallion of Louis XIV against a pale-brown ground within a moulded oval gilt laurel-wreath cartouche surmounted by a gilt mask of Apollo within a sun-burst medallion, the pink and turquoise spirally moulded lower body moulded with a rococo scroll cartouche enclosing a Coat-of-Arms surmounted by a crown and with a cherub supporter, the reverse painted with a bouquet below gilt scroll-moulded shoulders modelled in high relief with two maidens, the spirally moulded cover modelled with a crowned cartouche enclosing a scrolling gilt letter 'A' and with two cherub supporters, on a spirally moulded foot, applied overall in high relief with flowering branches (chips to extremities and small parts lacking), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 20 and 147, incised 98, 1860-1880

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A MEISSEN ROCOCO MOULDED VASE AND COVER after the original model by J. J. Kändler and J. F. Eberlein, the tapering ogee-shaped body painted en grisaille with a portrait medallion of Louis XIV against a pale-brown ground within a moulded oval gilt laurel-wreath cartouche surmounted by a gilt mask of Apollo within a sun-burst medallion, the pink and turquoise spirally moulded lower body moulded with a rococo scroll cartouche enclosing a Coat-of-Arms surmounted by a crown and with a cherub supporter, the reverse painted with a bouquet below gilt scroll-moulded shoulders modelled in high relief with two maidens, the spirally moulded cover modelled with a crowned cartouche enclosing a scrolling gilt letter 'A' and with two cherub supporters, on a spirally moulded foot, applied overall in high relief with flowering branches (chips to extremities and small parts lacking), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 20 and 147, incised 98, 1860-1880
33in. (84cm.) high

Lot Essay

The vase copies an 18th Century original, which was probably given as a present by the Saxon Court to Louis XV of France circa 1742 and was modelled with emblems celebrating the glory of France. Cf. J. L. Sponsel, op. cit. p. 145 for a white example of the 18th Century and ibid. p. 144 for a similar vase made for Augustus III. See also Dr. K. Berling (Ed.), op. cit., p. 37, Fig. 68 for a white-glazed model of 1742. This adaptation of the original shape is painted with the arms as borne by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland

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