A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with cameo decor - image-1

Lot 35 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with cameo decor

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
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A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with cameo decor

Model no. 1084. Decorated to the centre with a portrait of a young man in profile with his hair tied back by a band against a dark background in imitation of a sardonyx cameo. Framed by concentric gilt and ornamental bands, the border with tendrils. Blue sceptre mark with iron red dash, light brown cross shaped painter's mark, impressed 19, remnants of an owner's monogram in black: E.A.F.C. for Ernst August Fidei Commis. D 24 cm.
Circa 1817 - 23, the decor attributed to Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker.

Provenance

Sotheby´s Royal House of Hanover Sale, 9th October 2005, lot 2952.

Literature

In Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 87, the painter's mark attributed to Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker. Cf. also ibid. no. 13, for a plate with a portrait of Achilles in cameo technique signed by Völcker (Lempertz Berlin, auction 1125, The Twinight Collection, 7th October 2017, lot 15).