A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE BLUE-GROUND VASE AND COVER
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE BLUE-GROUND VASE AND COVER

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED G.59,, PRESSNUMMER 20

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE BLUE-GROUND VASE AND COVER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED G.59,, PRESSNUMMER 20
Oviform, flanked by snake-handles, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped maiden holding a love bird within a surround of gilt and platinum palmettes
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high

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For an image of this form in the Meissen stock book, circa 1900, see B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, p. 182. Also see p. 181 for a pâte-sur-pâte vase of this form owned by the Staatlich Kunstammlungen, Dresden in 1885.

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