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Pair of KPM Porcelain Blue Ground Vases and Covers Exhibited at the 1862 Worlds Fair in London.
Lot: 40
Berlin.
Circa 1847-1850, for the porcelain the decoration may have been added closer to 1860.
Neoclassical style pair of dark turquoise blue enamelled footed vases, with gilt goats head handles to sides, and moulded with a gilt band decorated with applied white glazed flowers the domed covers with fully sculptural figures of putti with wine clusters. On canted square feet.
Underglaze blue transfer-printed eagle in a sphere mark and iron-red orb and KPM mark.
18 1/2 H.
Provenance: Property from the Estate of Arthur Thomson, San Francisco, CA. Purchased at the Berlin Porcelain Stall at the Great International Exhibition May 1862. Label to interior of cover.
Condition: Very good overall condition. .