A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece - image-2

Lot 542 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 7.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain candelabrum from Amberg's centrepiece

Model no. 9027. Six-flame porcelain candelabra, fired in several parts and screw-mounted with brass fittings. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark. H 60.5 cm.
Before 1914, the model by Adolph Amberg, October 1908.

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

A further candlestick is housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Ke2852_a). Cf. v. Treskow, Der Hochzeitszug von Adolph Amberg, in: Das Kronprinzensilber, Berlin 1982, p. 315. Cf. cat. Berliner Porzellan vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus 1889 - 1939, Berlin, undated (1996), no. 186.