Finely painted on the front after Gabriel Metsu with a drinking man seated with a woman, the reverse after Gerard Dou with a violinist standing at the window of an artist's studio, flanked by acanthus scroll handles with maiden mask terminals
21³⁄₄ in. (55.2 cm.) high

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The painted scenes on this vase are after Gabriel Metsu's 1661 painting Portrait of the Artist and his wife Isabella Wolff in a Tavern and Gerard Dou's 1665 Violin Player. Both of these works are in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Plaque painters working at the Meissen factory and on Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain in the 19th century took inspiration from Old Master works that they encountered in German muesums and galleries at the time.
This form is recorded as shape no. G125 in the Meissen Tradesman Catalogue of 1911, pl. 37. Also compare the example of the same form with the same gilding pattern to the rim, neck and foot rim, sold Christie's, London, 30 September 2015, lot 60 (£25,000).