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A Vienna style cobalt-blue and gold ground porcelain vase of baluster form, domed cover and stand. C. 1900, blue beehive mark, signed C. Forster. Painted with a continuous depiction of ancient Athens after a fresco on the facade of the University of Athens, begun by Carl Rahl in the 1860s and finished by Eduard Lebiedzki, c. 1888. Centrally is shown Pericles, Aspasia, Plato, Antisthenes and Anaxagoras, the latter is depicted holding the Earth. H. 130 cm.
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