A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PORTRAIT VASE ON OCTAGONAL STAND

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Neo-Rococo In the late 19th Century, as a reaction to the severity of Neoclassicism, revivalist artists began to revisit the sinuous lines of the Rococo. What emerged was a unique style incorporating both genres. A leading proponent of this style was Alexander Kips, Artistic Director at the Royal Berlin Manufactory. Under his auspices grand displays were mounted at both the Chicago Columbian Exhibition of 1893 and at the Paris Universelle Exposition of 1889. To follow are several works created under the leadership of Kips, including two monumental signed works by the celebrated Berlin artist Franz Bertram Aulich. Aulich later immigrated to the United States and went on to exhibit at both the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 and in San Francisco in 1906. PROPERTY OF A FLORIDA GENTLEMAN

A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PORTRAIT VASE ON OCTAGONAL STAND

CIRCA 1888, BLUE SCEPTRE AND IRON-RED ORB MARKS, IMPRESSED AND GILT NUMERALS AND CYPHERS, SIGNED F.(RANZ) AULICH

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A LARGE BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PORTRAIT VASE ON OCTAGONAL STAND
CIRCA 1888, BLUE SCEPTRE AND IRON-RED ORB MARKS, IMPRESSED AND GILT NUMERALS AND CYPHERS, SIGNED F.(RANZ) AULICH
In the Neo-Rococo taste, of baluster form, finely painted front and back with a classical portrait medallion within gilt anthemion, laurel and oak branches, the sides painted with lush floral bouquets including rhododendron and peonies, gilt allover with stylized foliate bands on polychrome grounds, on a conforming socle and octagonal stand
39½ in. (100 cm.) high (2)

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Franz B. Aulich, Silesian (c. 1852-1910) trained in Dresden and Berlin, joined the Berlin (K.P.M.) manufactory as a flower painter in 1888. Aulich immigrated to the United States in 1893. He established a painting and porcelain art school in the Auditorium Building, Chicago and went on to exhibit at both the 1900 Paris Universelle and the 1904 St. Louis World Fair.

The design for this vase is characteristic of Alexander Kips (The Artistic Director at Berlin from 1858-1910). The exuberant flower painting, rocaille scrolls combined with portraits is typical of the Neo-Rococo style. Favored by Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the Neue Palais is decorated in this fashion. The Kaiser is also recorded as presenting a Neo-Rococo long case clock to his grandmother, Queen Victoria, that was placed at Osborne House circa 1895, where it remains to this day.

See E. Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan, Würzburg, 1966, p. 96 for an illustration of the Deutsch-nationale Kunstgewerbe-Ausstellung, Munich, 1888 and p. 150 for an aquatint design by Alexander Kips.