Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory
1733 · Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The form of this vase is Chinese in origin, but the decoration freely combines Chinese and Japanese motifs. The vases can be dated to 1733, the only year in which the mark on the base was in use.
- Artist
- Meissen Manufactory
- Date
- 1733
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze
- Culture
- German, Meissen
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
