Lot Essay
Cf. a similar vase and cover sold in these Rooms, 17 March 1994, lot 456
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A BERLIN OGEE-SHAPED POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER
Circa 1915
Painted with lovers seated within a ruined building observing a bird on a distant branch, the girl silencing her companion, within a shaped oval green strapwork cartouche enriched with gilt flowers on meandering stems, the reverse with shaded pink and white chrysanthemum within a similar cartouche, the sides with two female masks with powdered dressed hair in high relief below a flared neck pierced with lozenges, on a spreading circular stem and square base (restoration to cover and to extremities, minute chips to petals), blue sceptre mark, iron-red K.P.M. and orb mark, black pattern number 7352
21in. (53cm.) high
Circa 1915
Painted with lovers seated within a ruined building observing a bird on a distant branch, the girl silencing her companion, within a shaped oval green strapwork cartouche enriched with gilt flowers on meandering stems, the reverse with shaded pink and white chrysanthemum within a similar cartouche, the sides with two female masks with powdered dressed hair in high relief below a flared neck pierced with lozenges, on a spreading circular stem and square base (restoration to cover and to extremities, minute chips to petals), blue sceptre mark, iron-red K.P.M. and orb mark, black pattern number 7352
21in. (53cm.) high