A KPM porcelain tureen made for General de la Motte Fouqué. - image-1

Lot 44 Dα

A KPM porcelain tureen made for General de la Motte Fouqué.

Auction 1030 - overview Berlin
24.05.2014, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.098 € (incl. premium)

A KPM porcelain tureen made for General de la Motte Fouqué.

Blue scepter mark to the interior of the tureern, pressnummers D 3. Cracks to the body, chips. H 25 cm.
KPM Berlin, 1766.

Provenance

Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1698 - 1774).

Literature

Cf. a smaller model of the same tureen in: Baer, Von Gotzkowsky zur KPM, Berlin 1986, p. 215. Frederick II sent this service together with a letter dated 19.12.1766 to his former General Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué in Brandenburg.