A POTSCHAPPEL PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL PRESENTATION VASE AND COVER (Prunkvase), in the second Rococo revival-style, gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with myriads of flowerheads, the shoulders with two pairs of winged cherubs and the baluster body with rocaille scrolls and angels flanking a royal coat-of-arms, surmounted by a crown, the sides painted with mythological scenes, the reverse with deutsche Blumen, on pierced pedestal quadrupod base applied with a scantily clad male figure chaining a winged bearded angel, on scrolled feet, the cover similarly decorated with oblique gadroons, applied flowers and two winged cherubs flanking a rocaille coat-of-arms surmounted by a crown, (minor damages), marked in blue with Potschappel-mark and with green flowerbranch, after 1872

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A POTSCHAPPEL PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL PRESENTATION VASE AND COVER (Prunkvase), in the second Rococo revival-style, gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with myriads of flowerheads, the shoulders with two pairs of winged cherubs and the baluster body with rocaille scrolls and angels flanking a royal coat-of-arms, surmounted by a crown, the sides painted with mythological scenes, the reverse with deutsche Blumen, on pierced pedestal quadrupod base applied with a scantily clad male figure chaining a winged bearded angel, on scrolled feet, the cover similarly decorated with oblique gadroons, applied flowers and two winged cherubs flanking a rocaille coat-of-arms surmounted by a crown, (minor damages), marked in blue with Potschappel-mark and with green flowerbranch, after 1872
85 cm high

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Carl Thieme founded a Saxon Porcelain manufactory at Freital-Potschappel in 1872. The production consisted of luxury porcelain after Meissen originals.

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