CIRCA 1830, ENCRE DE CHINE GOTHA MARK

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A Gotha porcelain gilt two-handled topographical amphora vase
CIRCA 1830, ENCRE DE CHINE GOTHA MARK
The vermiculated dark blue-ground body painted in colours with two framed rectangular cartouches, depicting Thuringian castles in landscapes with a golden glow, one with a view inscribed Dornburg and one inscribed Schwarzburg, the elongated loop handles enclosing a grotesque female mascaroon, on square pedestal base
42 cm. high

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Lot Essay

See U. Däberitz, Gothaer Porzellan, Wechmar, 1995, p. 197, ill. p. 197 for a similar model of vase from the Wedding Service of Crown Prince Ernst von Sachsen und Gotha and Princess Alexandrine von Baden.
U. Däberitz, 'Qualitätvoll und rar', in Weltkunst 14, 2004, pp. 32-35.
Schloss Schwarzburg is connected to the princely family Schwarzburg Sonderhausen and Schloss Dornburg to the princely family Sachsen Weimar.

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