Beschreibung:

A pair of Berlin Royal gold-ground wine-coolers from the Louise of Prussia marriage service Circa 1825, underglaze blue sceptre marks and incised /// marks, the first with painter's pale-blue arrow and circle mark, the second with painter's iron-red circle and cross mark Of cylindrical form, the slightly waisted feet with ciselé down-turned stiff-leaf ornament, the sides with large circular medallions painted with views of Berlin named at the base of each cartouche for Charlottenburg., Das Schauspielhaus in Charlottenburg., Ansicht von Berlin. and Das Krieges Denkmahl bei Berlin , each pail painted with a continuous garland of flowers and foliage suspended from each medallion and hanging below matt gilt lion's masks with crowns of lauerls held in their jaws, below bands of ciselé overlapping lozenge ornament and ropetwist ornament rims, the matt-gilt bands to the interior of the rims with bright-gilt mandering foliage (some minute wear to gilding) 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high