Magnificent Meissen gold fond handle vase with floral frieze. Crater-shaped, stocky body on a raised round foot with a stepped, concave neck and wide, sweeping rim. Low-set, volute-shaped, raised, vegetal handles on the sides. Gilding on all sides, partially polished. Circumferential, coloured floral frieze of red roses and rosebuds in polychrome painting on a finely etched vermicelli ground. Centreboard mark. H. 30.5 cm. Gielke, cat. Grassi-Museum, no. 368; Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 19. Jhs. fig. 13 (type of decoration). A splendid gold ground crater-shaped vase finely painted with frieze of flowers. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1830.