A pair of Niedermayer porcelain vases with fleurs en terrasse
Funnel-shaped vases on four claw feet and separately fired square plinths. The lower section of the vases decorated with naturalistic wildflowers, the bases with etched scrolls and anthemia. Blue bindenschild mark, year stamp 824 and 828, red 9. for Andreas Peil, dreher's marks 40 and 85. Stencilled inventory number in yellow "Altenburg 1808. H 28.5, ca. D 20 cm.
Vienna, Niedermayer manufactory, circa 1828.
Provenance
Former Kunstsammlungen Sachsen-Altenburg, Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Altenburg.
Purchased in 2007.
Literature
Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 83.
An identical vase is housed in the collection of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, Schloss Arnstetten, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand-Museum im cat. Thun-Hohenstein/Franz (ed.), 300 Jahre Wiener Porzellan Manufaktur, Vienna/Stuttgart 2018, p. 225.
Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009