LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED B.6. TO ONE VASE AND BOTH STANDS, IMPRESSED 54, 23 AND 54, 33 TO EACH STAND

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A PAIR OF MASSIVE MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASES, COVERS AND STAND
Late 19th century, blue crossed swords marks, incised B.6. to one vase and both stands, impressed 54, 23 and 54, 33 to each stand
Each finial formed as a large bouquet applied with butterflies and insects, above a gilt enriched, turquoise and pink pierced rocaille-moulded domed cover, the inverted pear-shaped vase finely painted after Watteau with a vignette of fashionable gentry in a garden landscape, within an applied flower and fruit surround extending to form vine handles, the reverse painted with a lush bouquet of deutcheBlumen, the foot applied with an opposing figure of a nymph or of a putto, on a conforming rocaille-moulded stand
35in. (88.8cm.) high, overall (2)

Lot Essay

See Dr. K. Berling, ed., Meissen China an Illustrated History, New York, 1972, p. 52 and 56, fig. 114 for an example of this model circa 1910. Kändler originally designed this model for Frederick the Great in various sizes and with alternate side-figures.

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