Auctions → Asian and Art and Antiques April 2015 → April 2015 Kunst und Antiquitäten → An impressive Meissen-vase with the portrait of Breschnew
Meissen, 1978. The vase's model designed by Paul Börner, 1927. Tall baluster-shaped vase. The front decorated with the polychrome painted half portrait of Leonid Breschnew dressed in uniform in full regalia. Verso inscribed 'Überreicht zum 60. Jahrestag der Sowjetarmee Berlin 1978 Zentralkomitee der SED Staatsrat und Minister der DDR'. Base and neck decorated with gold ornamental borders, gold rims. Crossed swords mark, incised '50483'. H. 66,5 cm.