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
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