A PAIR OF MEISSEN PALE-BLUE AND DOVE-GREY GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE VASES

CIRCA 1890, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, IMPRESSED 383/4 TO BOTH, PROBABLY BY L. STURM

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PALE-BLUE AND DOVE-GREY GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE VASES
Circa 1890, blue crossed swords marks, impressed 383/4 to both, probably by L. Sturm
Each of baluster form, with flaring frilled neck and rim, the shoulder applied with large trailing flowers flanking four shaped pale-blue panels painted and hand tooled, one with nymphs and putti making garlands and catching birds; the other filling a basket with grapes, drinking and making music, within a gilt trellis and foliate scroll surround, the conforming socle similarly gilt
19¼in. (48.9cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, pp. 182-185 for a discussion on the development of the pâte-sur-pâte technique at Meissen including this archival photograph (fig. 1). Also see Robert E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, Exton, PA, 1984, p. 158, fig. 148 for a similar cobalt-blue ground vase, circa 1890 and pl. 72 for a box attributed to Prof. Ludwig Sturm.