Large KPM Berlin view vase "The Royal Palace" in Berlin so-called Urbino vase. Ovoid body with rounded shoulder on an octagonal, stepped base with round foot, merging into a concave neck and wide rim. Curved, ascending biscuit porcelain handles on both sides in the shape of a pair of spiralling serpents with leaf relief attachments. Royal blue background. The front with a broad pictorial reserve framed by gold-engraved pipe and palmette ornamentation with a Prussian royal crown adorned with laurel. In it the view of the Berlin Palace (or Royal Palace) facing the Spree not far from the Long Bridge after a painting by the veduta painter Carl Daniel Freydanck. Polychrome painting with gold staffage. Mould designed by Julius Wilhelm Mantel, c. 1855, unmarked; sceptre, penny and painter's mark. H. 48 cm. Vases of this type with crowned views were made as gifts of thanks from the king and later Emperor Wilhelm I to deserving citizens. See Köllmann/Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, vol. II, fig. 561 (mould); see Ponert, cat. Berlin Museum, no. 127; cf. cat. Carl Daniel Freydanck, Veduta Painter, p. 87. A splendid royal-blue ground biscuit porcelain with painted view of the Berlin city palace. Insignificantly rubbed. Sceptre, Pfennig and painter's mark. KPM-Berlin. Circa 1849 - 1870.