Lot 270
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A Berlin gold-ground oviform two-handled vase of Münchner form
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A Berlin gold-ground oviform two-handled vase of Münchner form

CIRCA 1825, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, PRINTED IRON-RED ORB AND K.P.M. MARK AND IMPRESSED 111

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A Berlin gold-ground oviform two-handled vase of Münchner form
Circa 1825, blue sceptre mark, printed iron-red orb and K.P.M. mark and impressed 111
The body painted probably by Gottfried Völker with a continuous band of luxuriant garden flowers including passion flower, hibiscus, poppies, auriculas, tulips and lilac on the richly gilt ground with radiating bronzed stiff leaves and scrolling foliage, the shoulder with an ormolu collar above a band of stylised paterae and flowers, the spreading neck and stem with radiating stiff leaves, the top rim with a band of anthemion, terminating on a gilt square foot
31 in. (79 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Vases of Münchner form were developed at Nymphenburg in 1822 by Friedrich von Gärtner (see lot 273). For an exhaustive discussion of Berlin Münchner vases see Winfried and Ilse Baer, ...auf Allerhöchsten Befehl..., Königsgeschenke aus der Königlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin - KPM- (Berlin, 1983).

See the campana-shaped vase with similar decoration sold in these Rooms on 15th October 1990, lot 183, and see the pair of Kratervasen painted in a similar manner sold by Sotheby's on 9th July 1997, lot 186.

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