A Pair of Vases with Exquisite Limoges Painting and Scenes from Roman Antiquity, porcelain, cobalt blue body, rim with gilt edges decorated in relief, with recess with frieze of white palmettes and leaves in gold arches with gold looped decoration, baluster frontside and back with two antique scenes each; first vase featuring a runner with bow in his right hand and quiver of arrows on his back, wearing a lion pelt with head, looking back to the two horse tamers, tamer and steed also turning their heads back to the approaching quadriga, which is led by a young woman with angel wings, on the right side of the chariot a Roman warrior standing with helmet and breastplate, holding on to the handle of the chariot with his left hand, and holding a sword in his right hand, second vase with five figural scenes, a priest with headdress and staff in his left hand, in front of him a young slave with a casket in his hands, the priest pointing with his right index finger to two slaves, the kneeling slave holding a pedestal with basin, the standing slave pulling up the basin to raise the pedestal, on the side a young man with headdress holding a sacrificial bowl in his hands, smoke rising, the man looking to the following depiction with three ladies and a boy, in the centre stands the crowned queen, holding a laurel festoon in her hands, at the side a companion embracing her and strewing branches of roses, at the left side a companion approaching, taking roses from the flower basket carried by a boy, the scenes painted in white variegated Limoges painting, round foot with gilt edging and the same decoration as in the recess as well as golden meandering frieze, white rising handles with golden leaf coating and leaf terminals, the base of the body with gold rosettes and leaf branches, height 26.5 cm, diameter 26 cm Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, second half of the 19th century, model no. F 158, by Ernst August Leuteritz 1863–1865 (Ru) Lit.: Bergmann Supplement