A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor - image-1
A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor - image-2
A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor - image-1A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor - image-2

Lot 788 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 2.728 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase with pâte-sur-pâte decor

With original lid. Blue crossed swords mark. The lid with glued restorations, the tip of one of the side scrolls chipped, minor firing flaws to the decor and to the rim of the vase. H with lid 28.9 cm.
Late 19th C.

In the early 19th century, the Sèvres manufactory were able to establish themselves as the most technically innovative porcelain manufactory in Europe under the legendary director Alexandre Brongniart (from 1800 until his death in 1847). It was only after 1873 that Meissen were able to keep pace with this development: Manufactory inspector Dr. Julius Heintze was not only able to imitate the pâte-sur-pâte painting technique discovered in France but also introduced new underglaze pigments that provided an ideal ground for the semi transluscent liquid porcelain mass.

Provenance

Hessian Collection.

Literature

For more on the development of pâte-sur-pâte painting in Meissen, see: Siemen (ed.), Impulse. Europäische Porzellanmanufakturen als Wegbereiter internationaler Lebenskultur, Hohenberg 1995, I-338.