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Lot 136 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain fruit basket

Auction 1193 - overview Berlin
07.05.2022, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale & Berlin Salon
Estimate: 4.500 € - 5.000 €
Result: 5.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain fruit basket

So-called "Schinkel basket" model, fired in two parts and decorated with violets. Blue sceptre mark, illegible lustre mark. H 17, D 26.7 cm.
Model designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, presumably 1804, produced around 1820.

Literature

Cf. Köllmann/Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, vol. I, Munich 1987, p. 177, illus. 103.
For more on the history of this model see Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, p. 61 f.
This model was reiterated a number of times, including for the Generals' service made for Prince Frederick William of Prussia illustrated in cat. Orden auf königlichem Porzellan. Das Tafelservice vom Eisernen Helm und die Feldherrenporzellane der königlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin, Eichenzell 2013, p. 18, illus. 7.