Two Berlin KPM porcelain busts. - image-1

Lot 45 Dα

Two Berlin KPM porcelain busts.

Auction 1047 - overview Cologne
02.05.2015, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.108 € (incl. premium)

Two Berlin KPM porcelain busts.

Finely painted busts of Isis and Neptune on rectangular socles. Blue sceptre marks to the unglazed undersides, the female bust inscribed "Isis" to the reverse. A small breakage to the crown of Neptune, wear to the gilding. H 10.8 and 10.3 cm.
Ca. 1765, modelled by Friedrich Elias Meyer.

Literature

Cf. Lenz, Berlin 1913, vol. I, illus. 27 and 31.