A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN VASES

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1740, THE MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN VASES
The porcelain circa 1740, the mounts 19th Century
Each vase of rouleau form with acanthus-sheathed reeded lip mount and molded, stippled, and reeded scrolled foot mount, pierced for electricity, the foot of each vase incised 21, the underside of one vase with the Meissen crossed swords mark in underglaze blue
15in. (38cm.) high, 8½in. (21.5cm.) diameter (2)

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Johann Joachim Kaendler created the model for this vase, called the schneeballbltenvase, about 1740. The present vases are without the balls of flowers and the birds perched on branches that normally adorn the surface as illustrated in Otta Walcha, Meisener Porzellan, Dresden, 1973, fig. 100, Porzellansammlung, Dresden, and in Meissener Porzellan, 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pp. 140, 157, figs. 676-78, Residenzmuseum, Munich; in the latter are also illustrated (pp. 140, 157, figs. 672-74, also Residenzmuseum, Munich) the deluxe version of this model with a pierced trellis work knop, like a cage, inhabited by birds. The form of the hu underlies this type of vase, infusing with a Chinese spirit this example of pure rococo fancy.