A rare Berlin KPM cup with snake-form handles - image-1

Lot 194 Dα

A rare Berlin KPM cup with snake-form handles

Auction 1065 - overview Berlin
30.04.2016, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 8.060 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Berlin KPM cup with snake-form handles

Decorated in red, blue and gold, the blue handles designed as entwined snakes with gilded scales. The interior gilt. Blue sceptre mark with blue enamel dash and dot, impressed 17 II. H cup 10 cm.
Ca. 1810.

Provenance

Purchased from Christie's London, A Century of Berlin, 1st May 2002, lot 107.

Literature

The cup illus. and described in Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, cat. 51.