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Nymphenburg vase with copies of paintings

Christian Matthias Adler (1787 - 1850)

Nymphenburg vase with copies of paintings
1817
hard porcelain with onglaze colours and polished, partly engraved gold-plating
Höhe 55.00 cm
Diameter 48.00 cm
Adler 1817 (signed bottom left)
1008
Currently not in the exhibition
German 19th century
© Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Illustration Fotostudio Ulrich Ghezzi, Oberalm

This gold-plated portrait vase is one of two similar exemplars listed since 2019 in the Residenzgalerie’s inventory. Both were owned by Archduke Ludwig Viktor and were ornamental pieces in Klessheim Palace near Salzburg.
Set on a square base and a profiled foot is a chalice with curled handles. On each side is a scene taken from a painting in the Bavarian Painting Gallery. "Jesus and John at a young age" is a copy after a painting by an artist of the Rubens school (Staatsgalerie Schleissheim, inv. no. 1296). The sleeping woman is a detail from a work by Nicolas Poussin – "Midas and Bacchus" –, with changes made to the landscape (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 528); her pose is similar to that in the famous Hellenistic sculpture, the "Sleeping Ariadne".

Habersatter Thomas: Nymphenburger vase with copies of paintings, in: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 284-285

Nymphenburg vase with copies of paintings

Nymphenburg vase with copies of paintings, 1817

Christian Matthias Adler

Inv. no. 1007