Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair)

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

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.

Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen

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Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen
Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen
Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen
Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen
Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen
Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze, German, Meissen

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