Beschreibung:

A BERLIN GOLD-GROUND SLENDER CAMPANA VASE AND PLINTH OF WELLINGTON SERVICE TYPE, finely painted with a continuous scene depicting the battle of Vittoria after the engraving by F.C. Lewis with Wellington and his officers, a Spanish mercenary among cattle and grey-uniformed infantary-men in the foreground, the battle raging in the middle distance before the town and wooded foot-hills with mountains in the distance, the flared upper rim finely chased with radiating stiff leaves and anthemion, the swelling gilt lower part chased with bands of foliage, Vitruvian scrolls and joined by scrolling foliage and shells between the two short curved scroll handles, on a spreading circular gilt foot and square black marbled base, supported on a pale salmon-pink-ground square plinth richly gilt with stylised foliage, flowerheads and anthemion, the gilt stepped lower part with overlapping chased foliage, the top with giltmetal support for the vase (minute chip to upper rim of vase and to bottom corner of plinth, minute blemish to one angle of foot), the plinth with blue sceptre mark, Pressnummer 38, painter's marks of a puce circle and a yellow line, circa 1817 70.5cm. high overall