A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE PALE-PINK AND TEAL GROUND VASE AND COVER

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. K.111, PRESSNUMMER 20, THE PATE-SUR-PATE DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO LUDWIG STURM

Details

Baluster form, the central gilt-foliate bordered cartouche hand-tooled and decorated in white slip with an allegory of music, a draped nymph playing a violin and flanked by putti, the reverse painted with a platinum and gilt bouquet of daisies, with two upright scroll handles decorated with strapwork and surmounted by lion heads, on a circular foot painted with gilt scrolls and geometric platinum details and conforming tall domed cover with bud finial
16 1/2 in. (42 cm.) high


Lot Essay

Pâte-sur-pâte was first successfully made at Meissen in 1878 under the direction of the chemist Dr. Julius Heintze. In 1880, pâte-sur-pâte production moved from the modeler's department to the painting department, and the then director Ludwig Sturm encouraged a 'more lively and spirited' approach to classicism. See B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1902, London, 1992, for a discussion. For an entry of the present vase form in The 1911 Meissen Tradesman's Catalogue, see pl. 53 and 62.
For another vase of this form and same subject but in a different decorative style, see Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 2011, lot 89.