A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase - image-1

Lot 595 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase

Fired in two parts and screw-mounted. Of baluster form with snakes as handles. The pierced lid with an oakleaf finial. Decorated to the display side with a depiction of a putto as an allegory of Spring in pâte-sur-pâte technique. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 20, incised model no. F. 26. Breakage to one handle reattached with glue, a retouched damage above. Tip of a snake head of the second handle broken off. H 28 cm.
Ca. 1900.

Under the legendary artistic director Alexandre Brongniart (until 1847), but also during Napoleon III's reign, Sèvres developed into Europe's most technically innovative major producer. In order to remain internationally competitive, it was decided in Meissen in the 1870s to develop an alternative to the still or again successful Rococo decors and began to study and apply new ceramic techniques, in particular new underglaze colours and the mass painting used here.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. Berling, Festschrift, Dresden 1911, p. 95, illus. 230.