A very large Berlin porcelain vase given to Sir Andrew Buchanan by the King of Prussia, circa 1859

A very large Berlin porcelain vase given to Sir Andrew Buchanan by the King of Prussia, circa 1859
'Schinkelsche Sorte', the flared neck finely painted with a continuous scene after Adolf Schrödter depicting 'Triumph des Königs Wein' (Triumph of the Wine King) between burgundy-ground borders decorated with bands of gilt entwined scrollwork and foliage, the burnished gilt rim tooled with a band of false gadroons, the lower body mounted with two gilt-metal bacchic masks and surmounted by a beaded collar supporting the neck, painted after designs by Hermann Looschen with heart-shaped panels reserved on a pale-lavender ground painted with fruiting vines and iron-red scrollwork over a gilt stiff-leaf border, the foot surmounted by a metal collar above the gilt-edged flared top over a band of moulded gilt fruiting vines, the high flared foot with lavender ground, reserved with gilt scrollwork and foliate swags with pendant gilt husks tied with ribbons, the footrim with entwined gilt bands inside the burnished gilt-ground rim tooled with a formal foliate border, 90cm high, sceptre and pfennig marks in underglaze-blue, the footrim inscribed 'E.F.' in blue, the bottom rim of the neck inscribed 'No: 3' in red