A MAGNIFICENT BERLIN GARNITURE OF FIVE BLUE-GROUND 'MUNICH' VASES, each of urn shape with shallowly sloping shoulders and waisted cylindrical necks with gilt and bronzed angular handles, the bodies painted with extensive views and buildings within richly gilt rectangular cartouches with burnished scrolling foliage, the vivid blue grounds with bronzed and gilt scrolling foliage and anthemion, the necks with bronzed and gilt radiating stylised fronds and anthemion and yellow-centred iron-red flowers divided by a blue band with meandering green fronds and tendrils, the shoulders with half cartouches of pateræ and fronds, each vase with an ormolu collar above the circular spreading foot with a gilt band of orange strapwork and radiating gilt false gadroons above a band of berried green myrtle, on square gilt bases, the convex rims with stylised iron-red and green foliage and interlaced ogival and trefoil arches divided by blue and gilt smaller arches, comprising:

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A MAGNIFICENT BERLIN GARNITURE OF FIVE BLUE-GROUND 'MUNICH' VASES, each of urn shape with shallowly sloping shoulders and waisted cylindrical necks with gilt and bronzed angular handles, the bodies painted with extensive views and buildings within richly gilt rectangular cartouches with burnished scrolling foliage, the vivid blue grounds with bronzed and gilt scrolling foliage and anthemion, the necks with bronzed and gilt radiating stylised fronds and anthemion and yellow-centred iron-red flowers divided by a blue band with meandering green fronds and tendrils, the shoulders with half cartouches of pateræ and fronds, each vase with an ormolu collar above the circular spreading foot with a gilt band of orange strapwork and radiating gilt false gadroons above a band of berried green myrtle, on square gilt bases, the convex rims with stylised iron-red and green foliage and interlaced ogival and trefoil arches divided by blue and gilt smaller arches, comprising:

A large vase with a circular portrait medallion of Fredrick William II, King of Prussia, in half profile to the left, the reverse with a gilt and bronze Prussian eagle within an oak-leaf cartouche, the shoulder with an ormolu band cast with radiating foliage and gadroons
78cm. high

A pair of vases, one with the Altes Museum and the Schauspielhaus, the other with the Werdersche Kirche and the Gens d'armes Markt (one with repaired chip to edge of base, the other with minute chip to bottom edge of one corner and some discolouration to the blue ground)
61cm. high

A pair of vases, one with Das Schloss zu Charlottenburg. and Potsdam vom Pfingstberge aus. named in black script inside the neck and the other with Schloss Sanssouci and Neues Palais, Potsdam (the first with some minor discolouration to the blue ground)
51cm. high
blue sceptre marks, incised lines, 1834 (5)

來源

Karl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum
Thence by descent to the present owners

出版

Winifried Baer, Ilse Baer, ...Allerhöchsten Befehl...Königsgeschenke aus der Königlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin-KPM-, p. 85, no. 39
Erich Köllmann/Margarete Jarchow, op. cit., no. 555

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Schlossmuseum, Darmstadt

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On 4 April 1834 this remarkable garniture of five vases was presented by Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia (1770-1840) to the Royal Prussian General and Minister of State, Count von Lottum (1767-1841), in celebration of a notable fifty years service to the State, and intended as the surtout de table for the dessert-service presented to the Count on the same occassion.

The present garniture would appear to be the only gift of five 'Munich' vases. Normally these were presented as single vases, or in pairs and on rare occasions as a garniture of three such as that given to Tsar Nicolas I in 1832, now in Schloss Charlottenburg. The shape, conceived by Friedrich Gärtner for Nymphenburg and adopted as presentation vases by the Berlin factory, was commissioned by the Court as gifts some 120 times between 1829 and 1849, for a full list in the Account Book, including these vases, see W. Baer, I. Baer, ibid., pp. 80-89. The Account Book lists these vases in full on p. 85, no. 39, '4 April 1834 (S. 203)...', noting the cost for each vase. The central vase, known as 'Münchner Sorte No. 3', cost 550 Reichstalers plus 18 Reichstalers 17 1/2 Sgr. for the ormolu bands and 40 Reichstalers for the gilt bases. The pair of larger side vases known as 'Münchner Sorte No. 2' cost 692 Reichstalers plus 8 Reichstalers for the ormolu bands and 50 Reichstalers for the gilt bases. The pair of smaller side vases known as 'Müncher Sorte No. 1', cost 420 Reichstalers plus 6 Reichstalers 20 Sgr. for the ormolu bands and 26 Reichstalers for the gilt bases.

The design for the ground decoration was taken from a drawing by Johann Heinrich Strack (1805-1880), an architect and designer who worked at the KPM factory from 1832-37, see W. Baer, I. Baer, ibid., p. 50, no. 24, now conserved in the Berlin archives in Schloss Charlottenburg (Mappe 146, nr. 60). The same design appears on other vases but with differing ground colours, see W. Baer, I. Baer, ibid, p. 50 no. 25 for the vase presented to Duke Carlo Ludovico II of Lucca and W. Baer, I. Baer, ibid., p. 51, no. 46 for those presented to the Duke of Nemours. For the design for the reverse of the central vase, also conserved in the Berlin archives (Mappe 146, no. 14) previously not associated with the present vases, see W.Baer, I. Baer, ibid., p. 65, no. 44

The portrait of the King on the central vase shows him wearing his full Orders, from left to right the Russian Order of St. George, the 1813 Iron Cross of Prussia, the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, the Prussian 1813-1814 medal and the badge of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle.

The side vases are painted with detailed views taken from engravings by Schirmer, Calau, Forst and Jügel copied on to the vases by the factory's finest artists. The larger pair of side vases have views of buildings in Berlin all designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). The view of the Schauspielhaus was taken from an engraving by Johann Friedrich Jügel after a drawing by Schinkel; for an identical view see Katalog Ditmar Ponat, Kunstgewerbe I. Keramik. Bestandskatalog Berlin-Museum 1985, pp. 117-118, no. 112. The smaller side vases bear four views of the environs of Berlin including the magnificient terrace at Sanssouci, Potsdam, taken from an engraving by Laurens et Thiele after Calau (Mappe 39, nr. 86) and the Neues Palais, Potsdam taken from an acquatint by Schirmer also conserved in the archives.

Karl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum, known as Count von Lottum, was born in Berlin in 1767 and educated in Fredrick II's 'Academy of Nobles'. On 9 April 1984 he joined the infantry as an Ensign and was made a Lieutenant in 1786. He held various military and government posts up to 1818 when he was created Finance Minister of the Interior and in 1828 General of the Infantry. On 9 April 1834 he celebrated his 50 years service and died in Berlin on 14 February 1841