A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins - image-2

Lot 34 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins

Auction 1125 - overview Berlin
07.11.2018, 18:00 - The Twinight Collection I
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.500 € (incl. premium)

A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with painted micromosaic ruins

Model "achteckig glatt" with original saucer. Painted with four views of Roman ruins in imitation of micromosaic alternating with four Roman lyres in imitation of pietra dura. Blue sceptre mark, brown imperial eagle mark.
1823 - 32.

Provenance

Purchased in 2003 through Diana Huntley.

Literature

Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 24.

Exhibitions

Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009