A SET OF THREE PARIS OR BRUSSELS PORCELAIN GILT POLYCHROME MONOGRAMMED ROYAL PRESENTATION VASES

CIRCA 1820

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A SET OF THREE PARIS OR BRUSSELS PORCELAIN GILT POLYCHROME MONOGRAMMED ROYAL PRESENTATION VASES
CIRCA 1820
COMPRISING: ONE PAIR OF AMPHORA-SHAPED TWO-HANDLED PEDESTAL VASES, THE DARK-BLUE JASPERWARE-TYPE GROUND DECORATED WITH A WREATHED LYRE, WITH LOOP HANDLES CONTAINING BISCUIT MEDALLIONS DEPICTING A FEMALE HEAD, ONE WITH A FRONTAL SEASCAPE DEPICTING A BOY IN A SLOOP ON A WAVY SEA, ONE WITH TWO PUTTI PICKING FLOWERS IN A GARDEN IN FRONT OF A STATUE, ON SQUARE PEDESTAL BASE (CIRCA 32.5CM., 12 3/4IN. HIGH), AND ONE CENTRAL VASE EN SUITE WITH THE FRONTAL MONOGRAM OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA OF ORANGE, PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA IN A PAIR OF GARLANDED CORNUCOPIAE UPHOLDING A GRIFFIN, THE REVERSE WITH A BUNCH OF FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES, THE POINTED HANDLES SURMOUNTED WITH HELMETTED HEADS (37.5CM., 14 3/4IN. HIGH), (ONE VASE WITH RESTORED HANDLES) (3)

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THIS SET WAS OFFERED BY FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, PRINCESS-DOUAIRIèRE OF ORANGE (WIDOW OF STADHOLDER WILLEM V), PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA, TO THE DUTCH POET-AUTHOR MR RHIJNVIS FEITH IN MAY 1820. THE VASES WERE SPECIALLY MADE FOR THIS PURPOSE. THE DEPICTED SCENES WERE INSPIRED BY POETRY OF RHIJNVIS FEITH; THE GARDEN SCENE WAS INSPIRED BY THE POEM "AAN EENE BEEK" FROM THE WORK "OUDERDOM IN ZES ZANGEN", PUBLISHED IN AMSTERDAM IN 1802.
THE SEASCAPE WAS INSPIRED BY THE POEM "STORM OP ZEE", WITH REMINISCENCES TO THE NEW TESTAMENT (MATT. 8:23-7, MARC. 4:35-41 AND LUC. 8:22-25), FROM THE WORK "VERLUSTIGINGEN VAN MIJNEN OUDERDOM", PUBLISHED IN HAARLEM IN 1818.
THESE VASES WERE DISPLAYED AT THE MUSEUM SWAENSTEYN IN VOORBURG ON LOAN BY JHR. MR. A. FEITH.

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