Royal Porcelain Manufactory (KPM), Crater with landscape miniature

porcelain, enamel paint, glossy and matte gilt, engraved;
slight rubbing of gilding on plinth, foot and handles; 2-part vase - the base mounted with foot on plinth on a metal pin;
Height: 31 cm, base (plinth): 12 x 12 cm; signed in cobalt under-glaze scepter.
Berlin, model: so-called Reden'sche Vase No. 2, miniature according to a (lost) oil painting by Sebastian Carl Christoph Reinhardt (1738-1827), modeled on a copperplate by Daniel Berger (1744-1824)?, 1832.
Crater with cylindrical body and flared edges, with entablature handles, on a spool-shaped foot with square plinth. In a rectangular gilded frame on the front - a panoramic view of the Książ castle, the seat of the Counts and Dukes von Hochberg, with adjacent buildings (including the castle bridge, the library buildings with towers) and the staffage on the viewing platform on the right.
On the opposite side of the belly, a composition of gilded floral arabesque, with the day's date inscribed in reserve in the middle: Den 6ten Juny/ 1832. Sebastian Carl Ch. Reinhardt, whose landscape - perhaps by way of printmaking - was the model for the author of the miniature on the crater, is a renowned painter of landscapes and vedutas, a member of the Berlin Academy, known as the painter of Karkonosze landscapes. He exhibited his paintings regularly for more than two decades (from the late 1890s) at exhibitions in Berlin. He worked on commissions from the Berlin Academy, the Berlin porcelain manufactory, and Prince Hans Heinrich VI von Hochberg- Fu¨rstenstein.
The crater with a high-class view of Silesia's largest castle was undoubtedly created for a specific order, related to the von Hochberg family. A few years ago, a crater with almost identical decoration and the same form (Reden'sche Vase Nr.2) was offered in the antiquarian trade (Gronert-Kunsthandel, Dorotheum, Lempertz), but higher than the vase offered here by 11 cm and without a day date. Two such similar pieces speak for the realization of the von Hochberg order,
both for decoration of the castle interiors and as a gift for one of the numerous distinguished guests of Książ in the 19th century.