Vase "Oriental Painting", H 37,5 cm

This wonderful vase form was originally intended for the Japanese Palace in Dresden and has since come to epitomise timeless elegance due to its great visual harmony. The “Palace Vase” dates from around 1725. It has now been raised to the status of precious MEISSEN® Art Work by dint of opulent oriental decoration, an art that porcelain painters at MEISSEN® have very much made their own. It was not long after Europe had cracked the secret of porcelain, after all, that Höroldt’s paint laboratory began devising colours so intense they even outshone their Chinese counterparts, produced since the early 17th century in Nanking. The fine gilt scrolling rises like sunlight in this freshly configured design, the form then flaring out to allow the polychrome splendour of an intoxicating garden inhabited by heavenly birds to unfold.