A MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASE, COVER AND STAND

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. E.128, IMPRESSED 135 AND 28 TO THE STAND

细节

A MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASE, COVER AND STAND
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. E.128, IMPRESSED 135 AND 28 TO THE STAND
The pierced scrollwork domed cover with large bouquet finial, the inverted pear-shaped vase finely painted after Watteau with a vignette of an 18th century musician and companion in a garden before monuments, within an applied flower and fruit surround extending to form vine handles, the reverse painted with deutcheBlumen, applied with putto and young maiden at the shoulder and foot, on a conforming rocaille-moulded stand
24½ in. (62.2 cm.) high (3)

拍品专文

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.