A PAIR OF LUDWIGSBURG TWO-HANDLED ALLEGORICAL VASES

CIRCA 1820

Details

A PAIR OF LUDWIGSBURG TWO-HANDLED ALLEGORICAL VASES
CIRCA 1820
Each with purple ground with lozenge and medallion ornament and with gilt foliate handles with bronzed female mask terminals, each side reserved with elaborate gilt panels enclosing rectangular allegorical scenes named on the flared necks for CERES, MEDEA, AMORVELOCE and AMORCELOSO, on a circular socle and square base
25 ½ in. (65 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 20 November 2002, lot 352.

Literature

H. D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 360, no. 1604 and P. 666.

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Lot Essay

The scenes on these vases appear to be taken from prints of paintings, possibly after Giulio Romano (see the example by Michelangelo Maestri of Medea on her Chariot drawn by Horses below). The scenes depict different aspects of love, the first vase showing Medea (possibly representing jealous love) and Ceres (possibly representing swift love), the second vase with cupid in a chariot pulled by a winged female beast with a bearded old man nearby (representing jealous love) and cupid in a chariot pulled by stags (representing swift love).

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