Krater vase with view taken from a watercolour from the Stolzenfels album by Caspar Scheuren (Aachen 1810-1887 Düsseldorf)

Rhine front, showing Schloß Stolzenfels church, with a view of Schloß Brühl on the rear side
Berlin, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur 1844-47
Height: 54 cm

French shape on a square plinth, marked on the inside of the neck with a description of the pictures: “Schloss Stolzenfels a/R.” and “Schloss Brühl.” On the picture sides of the neck, two golden tondi with etched putto images with trombones and cornucopiae surrounded by oak leaves.
Bottom walls and base with painted fluting framed in gold, each with a stylised flowering twig, rich gilding.
Body and base joined by original mounting, with the following inscription on the wooden ring: F No=5.
Blue scepter mark with KPM and red stamp mark with imperial apple and KPM, scratch marks.

References

• Marlise Hoff, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Ilse und Winfried Baer, Carl Daniel Freydanck 1811-1887, ein Vedutenmaler der KPM, Berlin 1987. Therein a pair of vases, somewhat larger and different decoration, but with identical view of these two Rhine palaces.
• Catalog Caspar Scheuren, Leben und Werk eines rheinishcen Spätromantikers, Ed. Wolfgang Vomm, Städtisches Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, p. 302, ill. 427 and 428.