Small Meissen baluster vase with pâte-sur-pâte painting Profiled round foot on a square plinth. Ovoid body with rounded shoulder, retracted neck and flaring lip rim. Pigeon blue background. The front with an oval medallion framed by large laurel branches with an antique-style depiction of a cupid with a garland of flowers in fine, white pâte-sur-pâte painting against a grey-violet ground. Surrounding gold ornamental borders. Centreboard mark. H. 15 cm. Cf. Jedding, Meißener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jhs., p. 90 f.; Krockenberger, Museum Slg. Haus der Kunst, p. 22. A small porcelain vase depicting a cupid with flower garland in pâte-sur-pâte. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Late 19th century.