A pair of Potsdam blue and white double-gourd vases

CIRCA 1720

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A pair of Potsdam blue and white double-gourd vases
Circa 1720
The lower sections painted with Orientals at various pursuits, seated at discussion, one with a tray and another with a coffee-pot in a continuous fenced garden beneath a band of scrolls, the upper sections with a peacock and other birds among flowering plants, the flared rims with scrolls (large sections of rims restored and lacking)
16¼in. (41.3cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by Otto Reisebieter, op. cit., fig. 200

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