Lot n° 217
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Large ewer in two parts in Berlin porcelain of the 18th cent - Lot 217
Large ewer in two parts in Berlin porcelain of the 18th century.
Mark in blue with the sceptre, marks in hollow, the porcelain around 1768, the decoration probably later. Of baluster and rocaille form, provided with a handle with scroll applied of a mascaron and with head of dragon, the four-lobed collar with motives rocaille in relief, applied of two women and a naked child, the body moulded on a face of a low-relief made up of a young woman lengthened and of four putti close to a vase of flowers, and garlands of flowers, the base molded with a frieze of palmettes faced, the pedestal molded with a frieze of acanthus and a garland of flowers, the circular molded base, decorated with polychrome and gold natural, some restorations, small chips and minor wear to the gold.
This model is attributed to Johann Baptist Pedrozzi (1711-1778): originally from Switzerland (Lugano), he became the most important baroque stucco artist in Germany and worked successively in Wurzburg, Bayreuth and Berlin. It is in the latter city that he worked on the realization of the Neuen Palais in Potsdam and for the Berlin factory as a modeler and sculptor. This vase is part of a set of vases in the Renaissance style, of which five models are listed, and which would have been created for Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prince mainly warlike, he is nevertheless an enlightened Prince who will build the Palace of Sans-Souci, illustration of the Baroque architecture and decoration. Some of these vases have handles with numerous figures, others have simpler handles, even without handles.
One of them, having been part of the collection of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), is published by Georg Lenz, Berliner Porzellan, Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763-1786, Berlin, 1913, n°50-52, pl. 11, a second one, coming from the Prendergast collection, published and illustrated by W. B. Honey, German Porcelain, London, 1947, ill. 79, is today preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum of London (inv. C.39&A-1960), two others are published and illustrated by Erick Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan, 1763-1963, Braunschweig, 1966, vol. 1, p. 49 (with a different relief scene) and vol. 2, pl. 21 (in the collection of the Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg).
Two other vases, without handles, are in the Hamburg Museum (Lessmann, Breasel, Dück, Berliner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Hamburg, 1993, no. 247-248, pp. 182-183), and a fifth vase was published in 1966 by Erich Köllmann (Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan, 1966, no. 49).
H: 55,5 cm
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