porcelain, baluster with gilt edging, opening, baluster, base of the body, knop and base with div. moulded borders heightened with gilt, cobalt blue neck, the facing side and reverse side of the baluster with delicately painted bouquets of flowers after Braunsdorf on a white ground, height: 78 cm, width: 53 cm, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords late 19th cent., impressed no. 195 (Ru)

Lit.: Hans Sonntag die Sprache der Blumen, Leipzig 1995, p 88 et seq.; Lit.: Waltraud Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler Lexikon 1840–1914, vol. I, p 166;
“Eduard Julius Braunsdorf, watercolour- and floral painter, working at the Meissen Manufactory, from 1860 doc- participation in the London World Fair, 1862 with two vases with painted floral décor.” Berling 1910, p 93, p 112, fig. 309, p 113: “Sturm has furthermore ensured that the capable water-colourist Braunsdorf was able to become a floral painter of significance. While his pattern of decoration may not cater to our current tastes, and may even seem too naturalistic to serve as porcelain décor, one should not overlook Braunsdorf's importance to floral painting of a certain period. Soon others too were working according to his ideas…"