A BERLIN (KPM) PERSISCHER VASE

1825, BROWN PRINTED EAGLE AND KPM MARK, PAINTER'S MARK OF A LINE AND ANNULET

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A BERLIN (KPM) PERSISCHER VASE
1825, BROWN PRINTED EAGLE AND KPM MARK, PAINTER'S MARK OF A LINE AND ANNULET
Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, with richly jewelled flat scroll handles, painted with a Persian nobleman kneeling before a lady on a terrace flanked by columns and with a lady resting on a daybed with a winged musician attendant on the same terrace with mountains in the distance beneath swags and wreaths of flowers reserved on a cream ground with richly gilt strapwork, the lower part with simulated lapis, the spreading circular foot, shoulder and neck richly gilt with bands of cisel foliage and anthemion, the neck also with a lapis band with gilt quatrefoils
28½ (67.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The Persischer Vase was first designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1823. A vase of the same form in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, decorated with scenes based on themes from the novel Lalla Rook and derived from drawings and watercolours by Friedrich von Kloeber, is illustrated by Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Munich, 1987, Vol. II, p. 581, fig. 545.

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