Antique Italian Porcelain Museum Quality Gold Urn With Cupid Putti

Antique Italian Porcelain Museum Quality Gold Urn With Cupid Putti.

A museum quality palace urn in rich applied 24k gold overlay, yes thick rich gold overlay!!

All hand applied and hand painted upon a smooth maroon red porcelain background with a profusion of hand painted roses and violet flower bouquets.  A large original putti cupid angel nude sitting on top of the cover of the urn smiling and waving holding a white porcelain tambourine.  The nude putti is all in gold overlay porcelain.  No gold wear anywhere.  The putti is all original highly detailed, you can see the detail of the hands on the angels!  No breaks or cracks or restorations.   Everything in all original condition.  Putti's toes are curled upward.  Original factory mark underneath.  Quite possibly equal in quality to:

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18.5" tall x 9.5" wide