A pair of Niedermayer porcelain vases with fl ...

A pair of Niedermayer porcelain vases with fleurs en terrasse

Funnel-shaped vases on four claw feet and separately fired square plinths. The lower section of the vases decorated with naturalistic wildflowers, the bases with etched scrolls and anthemia. Blue bindenschild mark, year stamp 824 and 828, red 9. for Andreas Peil, potter's marks 40 and 85. Stencilled inventory number in yellow "Altenburg 1808. H 28.5, ca. D 20 cm.

Vienna, Niedermayer manufactory, circa 1828.

** Provenance
Former Kunstsammlungen Sachsen-Altenburg, Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Altenburg.

Purchased in 2007.

** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007

Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008

Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009