A SEVRES STYLE IRIDESCENT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER
SPURIOUS INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED WAGNER, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A SEVRES STYLE IRIDESCENT-BLUE GROUND VASE AND COVER
SPURIOUS INTERLACED L'S MARK, SIGNED WAGNER, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
In the Art Nouveau style, finely painted with a woodland scene from a Wagnerian opera most likely depicting a dispute over the tryst between Tristam and Isolde, a host of clansman and King Mark stand at ready, the iridescent turquoise-blue ground enriched allover with entwined raised gilt lilies, on conforming socle and canted square base
28 in. (71 cm.) high (2)
Lot Essay
See an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 10 September 1996, lot 213 for a Berlin (K.P.M) plaque painted with this subject and signed R. Wagner.
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