LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE VASES INCISED 2719., THE STAND INCISED 2772, VARIOUS IMPRESSED NUMERALS, AFTER A MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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TWO MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASES, COVERS AND STANDS
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE VASES INCISED 2719., THE STAND INCISED 2772, VARIOUS IMPRESSED NUMERALS, AFTER A MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each finial formed as a large bouquet above a gilt enriched, turquoise and pink pierced trellis domed cover, the inverted pear-shaped vase finely painted after Watteau with a vignette of a courting eighteenth century couple in a garden, within an applied flower and fruit surround extending to form vine handles, the reverse painted with deutcheBlumen, applied with companion putti at the shoulder and foot, on a conforming rocaille-moulded stand
24¾ in. (62.7 cm.) high (6)

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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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