A porcelain service with portraits of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his family
Tête à tête comprising a coffee pot and sugar box with original lids, milk jug and two cups with original saucers. Decorated with finely painted portraits of the Bavarian king, his wife, and their five children in gilt oval surrounds. Unmarked. A rounded crack to one saucer, one cup with a retouched rim chip. H coffee pot 16 cm.
The porcelain unidentified (possibly Regensburg?), décor attributed to a Munich “hausmaler”, after 1839.
The portrait of King Ludwig I (1786 – 1868) is based on a miniature by Carl Wollenweber dated 1839. The portrait of Queen Therese (1792 - 1854) was presumably inspired by the painting by Christian Adler from 1832 which is currently housed in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. The other portraits depict Prince Maximilian (later King Maximilian II of Bavaria, 1811 – 1864), Princess Mathilde Karoline (1813 – 1862), Prince Otto (later first King of Greece, 1815 – 1867), presumably Prince Luitpold (1821 – 1912) and Princess Adelgunde Auguste (1823 – 1914).
Provenance
Private collection, Palatinate.
Literature
For more on Wollenweber, cf.: Hantschmann, Nymphenburger Porzellan 1797 bis 1847, Munich-Berlin 1996, p. 459. Cf. Also: Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, 3rd vol., Leipzig 1923, illus. 429 and 433. For Regensburg porcelain, cf.: Baumstark, Thurn und Taxis Museum H?ische Kunst und Kultur, Munich 1998, cat. no. 117 and 119.