Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. K. Berling (ed.), Meissen China an Illustrated History, New York, 1972, fig. 306, p. 108 for an example of this model painted with 'The Ravishment of Europa'
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A MEISSEN TORTOISESHELL AND PLATINUM GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
CIRCA 1880, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, IMPRESSED 19, INCISED U.170
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A MEISSEN TORTOISESHELL AND PLATINUM GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
circa 1880, blue crossed swords mark, impressed 19, incised u.170
Of baluster form with arched foliate scroll handles rising from anthemia terminals and arching onto the everted mouth, finely painted in colours with a continuous scene of Leda and the swan, the waisted neck and foot gilt with foliate arabesques on the faux gadrooned platinum ground
22½in. (57cm.) high
circa 1880, blue crossed swords mark, impressed 19, incised u.170
Of baluster form with arched foliate scroll handles rising from anthemia terminals and arching onto the everted mouth, finely painted in colours with a continuous scene of Leda and the swan, the waisted neck and foot gilt with foliate arabesques on the faux gadrooned platinum ground
22½in. (57cm.) high