Vase "Stylised Flowers", H 40 cm

One of the most outstanding treasures of Meissen is undoubtedly the “Garden of Börner Vases”: no museum in the world owns anything comparable. Emil Paul Börner’s style of painting of is one of the great mysterious flowerings of Art Deco. While in the eighteenth century, botany is placed at the foreground, here we see the transparent essence of the flora itself. Detached in space, arranged in an almost ornamental fashion, and yet true in every detail, painted with the greatest skill, Börner’s work takes on an almost philosophical aspect. Masterfully painted on a so-called calabash vase, which was designed in Meissen between 1725 and 1730, a sophisticated link is made bridging the early 18th century and the start of the 20th century: a masterpiece of porcelain history.