1770-1775, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED C'S, ONE COVER OF LATER DATE

Details

A set of two Ludwigsburg floral vases and covers
1770-1775, marked with underglaze blue crowned interlaced C's, one cover of later date
The baluster body painted by Friedrich Kirschner and decorated with a frontal bouquet of natural flowers, the reverse with a smaller posy, the base and shoulders with gilt trellised rocailles in purple red, one with pinched, the other with upright neck, the domed covers en suite, one of later date with an encrusted rose finial, the other applied with a berry (one with repaired chip to the neck, some chips to the leaves of the berry finial)
27.5 and 29.5cm high (2)

Provenance

The collection of King Wilhelm II, the last king of Baden Württemberg, until 1918.

Literature

O. Wanner-Brandt, Album der Erzeugnisse der ehemaligen Württembergischen Manufaktur Alt-Ludwigsburg, "mit Allerhöchster Ermächtigung Seiner Majestät des Königs" (Stuttgart 1906), ill.1081 and 1021.

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Lot Essay

Cf. H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart 1997), ill. p.680 for a vase with Schulterform.
P. Lahnstein and M. Landenberger, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart 1978), ill. p.121 for floral painting by Friedrich Kirschner.

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