A Berlin KPM porcelain dejeuner made for Anne Hoffmann of Krotoszyn - image-1
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Lot 814 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain dejeuner made for Anne Hoffmann of Krotoszyn

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 17:00 - Important Porcelain from Two Private Collections
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Berlin KPM porcelain dejeuner made for Anne Hoffmann of Krotoszyn

The pitchers model 755 "Hetrurisch", the cups cylindrical with campaner form handles. Comprising coffee pot and sugar box with lids, milk jug and two cups and saucers. The cups and saucers inscribed with names and dates. Blue sceptre mark with red dash, red triangle, impressed marks. A rim chip to one saucer. H coffee pot 13.2 cm.
1821.

The key to interpreting this small service lies in the inscription of one cup "Heinrich Hoffmann seinem guten Weibe Anne geb: Fontana. Krotoszyn, am 10. Decbr: 1821". The second cup and the saucers are inscribed with the names of six children born between 1801 and 1820: Johann Anton Valentin on 29th December 1801, Anne Julie Alexandrine Henriette on 18th September 1804, Ernst Heinrich Julius on 16th August 1809, Carl Heinrich Theodor on 15th January 1811, Heinrich Christian Leopold on 17th November 1816 and lastly Carl Alexander Friedrich on 28th January 1820.
The small garrison town of Krotoszyn in the province of Posen was returned to Prussia following the Vienna Congress of 1815. Copies of numerous archival records document the history of Heinrich Hoffmann's family.

Provenance

Purchased from Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.