A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-1
A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-2
A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-3
A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-1A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-2A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish - image-3

Lot 253 Dα

A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish

Auction 1105 - overview Berlin
21.04.2018, 14:00 - Prussia II
Estimate: 50.000 € - 70.000 €
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A royal ormolu-mounted Berlin KPM porcelain dish

Unidentified model, fired in two parts and mounted. The centre of the dish finely decorated with radial ornament bands of stylised pinks and lilies. The border with exotic fruit such as pineapples, grapes, melons, lemons, oranges, tomatoes, corn, and figs. The underside of the dish with gilt trompe l'oeil fluting. The base and shaft moulded and decorated with Neoclassical foliage on midnight blue ground. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark. H 38.5, D 59 cm.
1832 - 37, the bronze mountings by Werner und Mieth, Berlin.

Literature

For the painted decor cf. a similar watercolour design by Carl Gottlieb Wilhelm Boetticher, dated 9th September 1833, illus. in: Baer/Baer, ...auf Allerhöchsten Befehl..., Berlin 1983, no. 28, p. 52.
Comparable to the two large fruit dishes from the dinner service for the Russian Grand Prince Nicholas, later Tsar Nicholas I, which was ordered and carried out by Berlin KPM between 1817 and 1823 (Köllmann, vol. II, Braunschweig 1966, pl. 216).
Two further large dishes in the collections of the British Rail Pension Trustee Company Ltd. (cat. Carl Daniel Freydanck, 1811 - 1887, Berlin 1987, no. P1) and of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (BK-R-4941).