FACTORY: Meissen, blue underglaze crossed swords mark with pommels on hilts (applied 1850-1924), impress number "139", as well a incised mark.

Date: Around 1880.

Size: 5.5 cm diameter on base / 2.5 cm diameter on top, 19.3 cm high.

Condition: In excellent condition. No cracks, hairlines, restorations or chips. First quality without incised mark. There is one 3 mm spot (the 14th picture) on the blue ground which likely happened during the manufacturing process as they have been glazed over. The painting and the gilding remain well, except a tiny flea bit of wear to the gold in the base rim (the 15th picture).

Meissen white enameled vase in French style. The vase has cobalt blue ground decorated by mythological scenes with white enamel. One side of painting depicts Aurura, the goddess of dawn, upholding a torch, and a flower on her left hand. The other side depicts Nyx, the goddess of night, holding a lamp. The painting is amazing and exquisite, their movements, their clothes, even the smoke that comes out from the lamp, everything is wonderfully rendered. A rare and extraordinary mythological vase.

* About the goddess of dawn

Aurura is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry.In Roman mythology, Aurura renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the Sun.

* About the goddess of night

In Greek mythology, Nyx , (Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. A shadowy figure, Night stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of personified such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death). Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power.

* Pate-sur-pate: Method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush.

* Limoges Enamel (French Enamel): There are techniques that to the naked eye look very similar to pate sur pate, Limoges Enamel technique involved decoration with white enamel or glazes, rather than layers of slip, being painted on to a dark background. The technique of slip painting was first exhibited by the French porcelain manufactory Sevres at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Meissen was first able to realise this technique in 1878 with the help of the chemist Julius Heintze.

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