A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia" - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia" - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia" - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia" - image-2

Lot 269 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia"

Auction 1127 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.000 € (incl. premium)

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate inscribed "Historia"

Unidentified model. With a female allegory of history with a large book and a globe in an octagonal reserve. The border with small still lifes in reserves. Signed "L.C. Frenzel." Blue sceptre mark with circle, red imperial orb mark, "er." in ochre, incised II. D 24.3 cm.
Circa 1870, decor attributed to Ludwig Carl Frenzel.

Provenance

Lower Saxon private collection.

Literature

For more on Frenzel cf.: Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, vol. I, Braunschweig 1977, p. 285. This author has traced the artist to Nymphenburg from 1906 - 1922.