Pair of Meissen ceremonial vases with Limoges enamel painting. Baluster-shaped body on a raised round foot, surrounded by ornamental friezes in relief with gold decoration. Side handles attached to the shoulder and rising in large leaf volutes. Both sides of the walls with antique-style, scenic depictions, including after engravings by Jean Francois Janinet and drawings by Jean Guillaume Moitte in white, relief-like applied so-called Limoges enamel painting on a cobalt blue background. Rich gold decoration with "gold bronze". Designed by Ernst August Leuteritz. Model no. E 103, crossed swords mark. H. 56 cm. This painting technique, influenced by Limousin painter's enamel work, was adapted to porcelain in the 19th century, initially executed by manufactories such as Sèvres, Worcester and Minton and first applied to Meissen porcelain vases in 1865 at the instigation of the modeller Ernst August Leuteritz. The white, low-viscosity slip is applied in layers, giving it a relief-like character. Favoured themes included classical figurative depictions, mostly based on copperplate engravings or relief depictions of classicism. Cf. Berling, Festschrift, pp. 88 and 91, fig. 228; Jedding, Meißener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jhs., pl. 1, Siemen, Von den Ursprüngen, p. 368. A pair of splendid porcelain vases with classical figural scenes painted in Limoges-enamel painting. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2nd half of the 19th century.