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Lot 192 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain bottle from a royal toilette service

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €

A Berlin KPM porcelain bottle from a royal toilette service

Model no. 340. Blue sceptre mark with enamel blue dash, impressed K O. H with gold mountings (finial lost) 11.5 cm.
Circa 1800, this model from 1780.

This bottle is presumed to be a subsequent order for the toilette service with motifs from Ovid in medallions thought to have been commissioned by Queen Louise in around 1780.

Provenance

Heinz Reichert, Munich.
Private collection, Berlin.

Literature

Cf.: Lenz, Berliner Porzellan, vol. II., Berlin 1913, illus. 590; two bottles of the same form from a toilette service presumably made for Princess Wilhelmine von Kurland in: Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan, vol. II, Braunschweig 1966, pl. 126.