A pair of Meissen porcelain ornithological two-handled baluster vases, circa 1750-60
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 EUR
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Description
each painted with two vignettes of different birds, including water fowl, peacocks, parrots and cockatoos, and with scattered insects, applied with turquoise foliate-scroll handles and trailing flowering foliage with strawberries, grapes and lemons, below a gilt-edged scalloped upper rim, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue
Height 22 cm; 8 ⅝ in
Vase painted with peacocks:
Collection of Catalina von Pannwitz, Berlin and Heemstede, acquired at auction in London, 1914 (part);
Thence by descent until sold ('Property of a Private Collection') Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2012, lot 9 (part).
A similarly decorated vase was sold at Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1995, lot 274.
