A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with a view of the Heilige Hallen - image-1

Lot 119 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with a view of the Heilige Hallen

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €

A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with a view of the Heilige Hallen

"Glockenform" model with rosette handles and original saucer. The display side painted with a view labelled "Salomon Gessners Bild in den Heiligen Hallen, mit der Aussicht nach Tharand". Blue sceptre mark, impressed number 28, incised II, the cup I.
Circa 1800 - 1810, after a motif by Johann Carl August Richter.

Provenance

Sotheby´s London, Style for a Nation auction, 9th July 1997, lot 128.

Literature

Richter's engraving can be found, among other places, in the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett (inv. no. A 1912-140).