A rare Berlin KPM porcelain vase with two views of the Alps View of Servoz and the Montblanc
A rare Berlin KPM porcelain vase with two views of the Alps
View of Servoz and the Montblanc
Model no. 1340, fired in two parts and screw-mounted. Painted with views of the French and Swiss Alps with figures in the foreground. Gilded arabesques above the satyr handles and along the upper edge. Wreaths of reeds against a midnight blue ground to the bulbous lower section and base. Blue sceptre mark with iron red dash, I. in brown, incised "4.I.34". The shaft restored below the screw mounting. H 30.5, D 22.7 cm.
After 1805.
This rare vase is described in the KPM archive as a "vase as a flower pot with satyr handles, royal order for the Consull Bonupart" (otherwise 3, model book, fol. 59v). According to Samuel Wittwer, the entry "immediately follows those models that were copied after Rosenstiel's return from France based on the porcelains he had brought with him". Friedrich Philipp Rosenstiel, director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, travelled to Paris on the king's orders in 1805.
The most striking feature of this model is the relief mascarons under the handles. They are based on the famous Borghese vase, a Roman marble vase from the 1st century BC, which was rediscovered in Rome in the 16th century and reproduced many times in prints.
The painted decoration of the vase is also unusual, showing views of the Alps on both sides. One depiction reproduces a veduta by Jean Antoine Linck (1766 - 1843), the "Vue de Servoz, de l'Aiguille du Gouté; et du Glacier de Bionnassey". The Lower Grindelwald Glacier can be seen on the reverse with the whitish blue Ischmeer above it, and the Fiescherwand and the three Fiescherhörner peaks towering over it. To the right rise an unnamed peak and the Ostegg, the easternmost spur of the Eiger. The view is completed on the left by the Bänisegg ridge.
Literature
For the model see Ploetz-Peters, Luise von Preußen - Ein Mythos, in: Keramos 156/1997, fig. 5.
S.a. Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz. Königliche Porzellane des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection New York, Munich 2007, pp. 87 and 95.
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A rare Berlin KPM porcelain vase with two views of the Alps
View of Servoz and the Montblanc
Model no. 1340, fired in two parts and screw-mounted. Painted with views of the French and Swiss Alps with figures in the foreground. Gilded arabesques above the satyr handles and along the upper edge. Wreaths of reeds against a midnight blue ground to the bulbous lower section and base. Blue sceptre mark with iron red dash, I. in brown, incised "4.I.34". The shaft restored below the screw mounting. H 30.5, D 22.7 cm.
After 1805.
This rare vase is described in the KPM archive as a "vase as a flower pot with satyr handles, royal order for the Consull Bonupart" (otherwise 3, model book, fol. 59v). According to Samuel Wittwer, the entry "immediately follows those models that were copied after Rosenstiel's return from France based on the porcelains he had brought with him". Friedrich Philipp Rosenstiel, director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, travelled to Paris on the king's orders in 1805.
The most striking feature of this model is the relief mascarons under the handles. They are based on the famous Borghese vase, a Roman marble vase from the 1st century BC, which was rediscovered in Rome in the 16th century and reproduced many times in prints.
The painted decoration of the vase is also unusual, showing views of the Alps on both sides. One depiction reproduces a veduta by Jean Antoine Linck (1766 - 1843), the "Vue de Servoz, de l'Aiguille du Gouté; et du Glacier de Bionnassey". The Lower Grindelwald Glacier can be seen on the reverse with the whitish blue Ischmeer above it, and the Fiescherwand and the three Fiescherhörner peaks towering over it. To the right rise an unnamed peak and the Ostegg, the easternmost spur of the Eiger. The view is completed on the left by the Bänisegg ridge.
Literature
For the model see Ploetz-Peters, Luise von Preußen - Ein Mythos, in: Keramos 156/1997, fig. 5.
S.a. Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz. Königliche Porzellane des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection New York, Munich 2007, pp. 87 and 95.
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