An important documentary Nymphenburg vase made for the Silver Jubilee of King Max I of Bavaria circa 1824 the vase form designed by Friedrich von Gärtner the decoration designed by Johann Martin von Wagner and painted by Christian Adler each side of the double-handled vase with a gilt vermiculé and jewelled cartouche enclosing, on one side an allegorical depiction of of King Max I as Protector of the Arts and Sciences, inscribed 'LITTERIS ET ARTIBUS' above various classical figures representing the Arts and Sciences, as well as portraits of the King and Queen Caroline, the back room hung with portraits of the artists Wohlgemuth, Adam Krafft, Albrecht Dürer and Peter Vischer the reverse with a iron-red ground panel painted in grey with the female figure of Bavaria in a chariot pulled by lions, each panel below a blue-ground panel with a gilt depiction of a lady kneeling before an obelisk, enclosed by gilt grotesques and scrolling foliage, the sides with a gilt-edged matte-blue-ground panel applied with the gilt handles with mask terminals and foliage heightened in green in imitation of bronze, the lower body with a band of gilt foliage above trelliswork on a matte-blue-ground, the flared neck with a blue-ground with gilt trellis pattern, reserved with arched panels painted en grisaille with Peace and the Bavarian Lion, the flared foot with a similar ground 78cm., 30 3/4 in.
An important documentary Nymphenburg vase made for the Silver Jubilee of King Max I of Bavaria circa 1824 the vase form designed by Friedrich von Gärtner the decoration designed by Johann Martin von Wagner and painted by Christian Adler each side of the double-handled vase with a gilt vermiculé and jewelled cartouche enclosing, on one side an allegorical depiction of of King Max I as Protector of the Arts and Sciences, inscribed 'LITTERIS ET ARTIBUS' above various classical figures representing the Arts and Sciences, as well as portraits of the King and Queen Caroline, the back room hung with portraits of the artists Wohlgemuth, Adam Krafft, Albrecht Dürer and Peter Vischer the reverse with a iron-red ground panel painted in grey with the female figure of Bavaria in a chariot pulled by lions, each panel below a blue-ground panel with a gilt depiction of a lady kneeling before an obelisk, enclosed by gilt grotesques and scrolling foliage, the sides with a gilt-edged matte-blue-ground panel applied with the gilt handles with mask terminals and foliage heightened in green in imitation of bronze, the lower body with a band of gilt foliage above trelliswork on a matte-blue-ground, the flared neck with a blue-ground with gilt trellis pattern, reserved with arched panels painted en grisaille with Peace and the Bavarian Lion, the flared foot with a similar ground 78cm., 30 3/4 in.
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