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Lot 541 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain figure of an African man with a horn from Amberg's table centrepiece

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.750 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain figure of an African man with a horn from Amberg's table centrepiece

Impressed mark “AMBERG” to the plinth. Blue sceptre mark and imperial orb mark, year letter T, model no. 9625, décor nos., impressed marks. Firing crack to the base. H 32,3 cm.
1919, the model by Adolph Amberg, October 1910.

The talented and already distinguished young sculptor Adolph Amberg (1874 - 1913) began designing a large figural centrepiece for KPM around 1904. This was to be presented at the wedding of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia to Cecilie of Mecklenburg on 6th June 1905, but did not meet the Emperor's taste and was therefore rejected. After three years, Amberg resumed the project in 1908 and finished the last pieces in 1910. Even today, the figures from the wedding procession are among KPM's most beautiful objects from the period before the First World War.

Literature

Cf. v. Treskow, Die Jugendstil-Porzellane der KPM, Munich 1971, p. 322. A similarly decorated example from 1911 is housed in the Sammlung Bröhan (cat. Kunst der Jahrhundertwende und der zwanziger Jahre, vol. II part 2, Berlin 1977, no. 213). A further, similar example auctioned by Lempertz Berlin, auction 1105 on 21st April 2018, lot 319.