A PAIR OF LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE-GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASES
Lot 244

A PAIR OF LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE-GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, FAINT INCISED MODEL NO. O. 160, PRESSNUMMER 20 TO EACH

Closed19 May 2021

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GBP 68,750

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A PAIR OF LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN PALE-BLUE-GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASES
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, FAINT INCISED MODEL NO. O. 160, PRESSNUMMER 20 TO EACH
Of unusually large size, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip, one example with two putti holding a flaming torch aloft, a third putto holding a book and a fourth a tambourine, the other example with one putto holding a flaming torch to a lamp held aloft by a second putto, a third putto holds a cornucopia and a forth putto holds a mirror, the necks and bases with polychrome and gilt scrolls on a mauve ground with gilt and platinum trellis decoration
21 in. (53 cm.) high

Specialist note

See B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1902, London, 1992, p. 182, fig. 136 for an archival photograph illustrating the large size of this model in comparison to other period Meissen examples. A single example of this form was sold at Christie's, New York, 17 October 2017, lot 42 ($27,500).