A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MAUVE AND SAGE GREEN-GROUND SERPENT-HANDLED VASES

CIRCA 1875, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. F.191, ONE WITH PRESSNUMMER 8, THE MODEL DESIGNED BY LEUTERITZ, THE PAINTING POSSIBLY BY MULLER

Details

Each campana-form, the circular foot, stem and lower body with black bordered mauve panels painted with gilt foliate scrolls on a sage green ground, the bodies finely painted after E. Bendemann with continuous views of either a boar hunt and procession or with Bacchanalian scenes, with double serpent-form handles terminating in gilt acanthus
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) high


Lot Essay

Eduard Julius Bendemann (1811-1889) was a highly regarded artist in Germany, serving as a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1838, and later the director of the Düsseldorf Academy. The scenes on one of the vases (the hunt scene and figures before an altar) are painted after friezes in the ballroom of the Residenzschloss in Dresden, designed by Bendemann circa 1838. A vase of the same form and decoration, possibly the present vase, is illustrated in The 1910 Meissen Collector's Catalogue, pl. 37. An almost identical example was sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 May 2017, lot 110.