Lidded Urn

This is an urn with its lid made by Royal Copenhagen in about 1780 and/or in 1810. I had this looked at by a Copenhagen expert and curator of their museum. Normally Copenhagen marks its pieces with three wave lines painted in under glaze blue but in cases where there is no glaze you may find the mark incised. The shape of the rather elaborate handles suggest that the vase was made at quite an early date, in the 1780's. This is somewhat contradicted by the cupid on the lid. We are talking about small differences but he looks more like being from around 1800.  However, the lid can have been made some years later than the vase when the vase was going to be painted. If the vase was made at an early date it must have been resting in the store room for a long time because the decoration was was carried out about 1810. The style of the flower painting would have been quite different if it had been done in the 1780's. The way the paste looks the vase was either made at a very early date before 1780 or that it was made about 1810. At the beginning when the factory was founded in 1775 it was the idea to use Danish kaolin. It soon proved to be of an inferior quality compared to imported stuff.  Due to the Napoleonic wars we had once more to go back to the Danish kaolin about 1810 and the result looks very much like the pictures of your vase. So there you have the story of this vase. It is handpainted with flowers and has relief decorations to the paste. The urn is in great condition for the age. The lid has two small visible chips to the rim and two extremely flat ons underneath. The putto was off at one point and was reattached. Really came off cleanly and jusst has a break through his left foot the rest is where he attaches to the lid so no biggie. The urn itself is in super shape. - two teeny chips to the base and one bigger to a top corner but not giant either. The base is loose where it attaches to the main body. The urn has quite a few firing flaws mostly black spots of which some have been ground out. This points to an early date of at least the main urn. A superb and rare example of early Copenhagen! The bottom is marked with the incised three wavy lines mark. The whole piece is 15 inches tall, 7.5 inches wide and 5.75 inches deep. Please email me for more information or other pictures.