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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 9617831, member: 18716"]The quality of the decoration. On real examples the people don't look like caricatures and there is a lot more detail. The proportion of the people on your vase are not anywhere near true to life - they seem to have a touch of dwarfism. The top factories employed and trained quality painters.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is most of the pieces you see offered in the market these days are copies/repro's. I had a look on 1st Dibs to try and find some decent examples, even that site seems to be plagued by poor quality examples not by the main factories. Looks like things have really gone downhill in the last few years. You may need to look at museum collections now to see real pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit to add, here are some which are almost certainly real:</p><p><a href="https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/porcelain/porcelain-vases/pair-of-covered-vases-in-dresden-porcelain-the-workshop-of-helena-wolfsohn-18992" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/porcelain/porcelain-vases/pair-of-covered-vases-in-dresden-porcelain-the-workshop-of-helena-wolfsohn-18992" rel="nofollow">https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/porcelain/porcelain-vases/pair-of-covered-vases-in-dresden-porcelain-the-workshop-of-helena-wolfsohn-18992</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 9617831, member: 18716"]The quality of the decoration. On real examples the people don't look like caricatures and there is a lot more detail. The proportion of the people on your vase are not anywhere near true to life - they seem to have a touch of dwarfism. The top factories employed and trained quality painters. The problem is most of the pieces you see offered in the market these days are copies/repro's. I had a look on 1st Dibs to try and find some decent examples, even that site seems to be plagued by poor quality examples not by the main factories. Looks like things have really gone downhill in the last few years. You may need to look at museum collections now to see real pieces. Edit to add, here are some which are almost certainly real: [URL]https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/porcelain/porcelain-vases/pair-of-covered-vases-in-dresden-porcelain-the-workshop-of-helena-wolfsohn-18992[/URL][/QUOTE]
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