Vintage Portuguese Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl | Vista Alegre for Tiffany & Co. Hand-Painted Floral

Double-marked on the base: the Vista Alegre crown mark (Est. 1824, Portugal) and the Tiffany & Co. retail stamp in gold — a porcelain centerpiece bowl from the Vista Alegre / Tiffany & Co. retail collaboration. The exterior in deep chocolate brown ground, interrupted by four shaped white cartouches each hand-painted in polychrome with a different botanical composition: full-blown peony, magnolia, lotus with butterfly, and floral spray with berries. The interior is white with scattered floral sprigs in soft tones, the scalloped rim edged in brown.

Vista Alegre, founded 1824, is Portugal's premier porcelain manufacturer. The Tiffany & Co. retail program produced pieces in this exact decorative vocabulary — rich ground colors, shaped white reserves, hand-painted floral programs in the famille rose and Meissen tradition. A handsome centerpiece for a console, dining table, or any setting that benefits from a sculptural object with formal pedigree.