A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASE

A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, FAINT INCISED MODEL NO. O. 160, PRESSNUMMER 20
Of unusually large size, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with two putti holding a flaming torch aloft, a third putto holding a book and a fourth a tambourine, the neck and base with polychrome and gilt scrolls on a mauve ground with gilt and platinum trellis decoration
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high