LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, FAINT INCISED MODEL NO. O. 160, PRESSNUMMER 20

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A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, FAINT INCISED MODEL NO. O. 160, PRESSNUMMER 20
Of unusually large size, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with two putti holding a flaming torch aloft, a third putto holding a book and a fourth a tambourine, the neck and base with polychrome and gilt scrolls on a mauve ground with gilt and platinum trellis decoration
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1902, Essex, 1992, p. 182, fig. 136 for an archival photograph illustrating the large size of this model is in comparison to other period Meissen examples.

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