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Each double-coil snake handle with leafy acanthus terminal, each side finely painted with scenes from famous operas, identified below as either ‘Der Häusliche Krieg’ by Franz Schubert or ‘Armida’ by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the sides finely gilt with a lyre entwined with berried laurel and fruiting oak branches, flanked by scrollwork, on a gadrooned lower-body and conforming fluted socle
32 in. (81.3 cm.) high, 2212 in. (57.2 cm.) wide
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The scene on one side of the present vase is after Mortiz Ludwig von Schwind’s (1804-1871) fresco of Schubert’s The Conspirators in the Vienna State Opera, painted in the 1860s. The director of the Munich Academy at the time, Peter von Cornelius, declared that Schwind’s portrayal “translated the joy of music into pictorial art."

The other scene is after Gioachino Rossini’s Armida, depicting the beautiful sorceress Armida and her enchanted lover Rinaldo in the pleasure palace she has conjured for them.

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