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Lot 64 Dα

A large Berlin KPM porcelain clock

Auction 1065 - overview Berlin
30.04.2016, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 8.060 € (incl. premium)
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A large Berlin KPM porcelain clock

Pendulum movement with anchor escapement and half hourly striking to a bell. The cylindrical clock corpus supported by a male and a female figure. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark, year letter alpha for 1926, model no. 11994. H 49 cm.
1926, designed by Gerhard Schliepstein. The movement by Lenzkirch.

Schliepstein mainly worked for the Rosenthal manufactory but also created a number of porcelain designs for KPM in 1924. This large mantle clock forms the ambitious high point of the series.

Literature

This clock is illus. and described in "Berliner Porzellan vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus", cat. 231.