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A pair of massive Vienna style Pirkenhammer vases circa 1890, signed A. L. Eckardt
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A pair of massive Vienna style Pirkenhammer vases
each of large baluster shape with neo-classical scrolling handles topped with busts of crowned mythological figures, the vases finely painted with Neapolitan peasant girls in a continuous Southern Italian landscape, one showing an erupting volcano, 59cm high (23.25" high), 31cm wide (12.25" wide), 21cm deep (8.25" deep) printed factory marks to the base (2)
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The porcelain painter A. Louis Eckardt is mentioned by Waltraud Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexicon (1977), Vol. I, p.251 as working from the Prager Strasse in Dresden in 1894. The Bohemian Pirkenhammer factory was founded in 1803, and in the second half of the 19th century the factory was exporting to Vienna and London. The Prikenhammer marks on these vases show they were made after 1887, and it is therefore likely these vases can be dated between the time of the introduction of the mark for this Bohemian factory, and the time Eckhardt returned to Dresden in 1894. Eckhardt is also recorded as a painter of Berlin plaques, a plaque by the artist was sold in these rooms, 6 July 2010, lot 311.
