Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 319
A large and rare Meissen pale-blue ground pâte-sur-pâte vase, late 19th century
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £31,500 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A large and rare Meissen pale-blue ground pâte-sur-pâte vase, late 19th century
Finely painted and tooled in white slip with two putti holding a flaming torch and another on the reverse playing a tambourine, the reserves edged with foliate scrollwork and trailing flowers against a salmon-pink ground with gilt trellis and peacock-feather panels and raised gilt and enamel scrollwork and flowers, the footrim further reserved with a dark-blue shaped panel with gilt trellis pattern, 52cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, indistinct impressed mark 0160 (?), impressed (135/55 221/55) and 20 (drilled through the base)
Footnotes
A similarly decorated but smaller vase was sold at Christie's New York, 19 April 2016, lot 133.
