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A Meissen Porcelain Pâte-Sur-Pâte Blue-Ground Vase, Late 19th Century
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October 17, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
of baluster form, finely decorated, possibly by Ludwig Sturm, in white slip with a scene of Venus and Cupid before a flowering tree, within an elaborate two-colour raised-gilt-edged cartouche, with mauve slip panelling with platinum diaper, and a multi-coloured slip foliate edge, with further white flowering branches, against a blue-ground, gilt scrollwork borders at rims, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, indistinct incised numeral H. 113, 182%(?) impressed numeral 20
Height 13 3/4 in.;
35 cm
Pâte-sur-Pâte decoration was first successfully produced at the Meissen manufactory in 1878, according to the company's chemist Dr Julius Heintze. Two years later, in 1880, the Munich artist Dr. Ludwig Sturm was appointed head of the painting department at the Meissen manufactory, and it is to him that much of the surviving Meissen output in this material is attributed. An image of the Meissen stock book of about 1900 is reproduced in Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1902, London, 1992, p. 182, fig. 136, where the model of this vase is illustrated.
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