A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails - image-1
A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails - image-2
A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails - image-1A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails - image-2

Lot 53 Dα

A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 12.600 € (incl. premium)
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A rare pair of Berlin KPM porcelain quails

Model no. 163. Naturalistically painted birds on rock perches, each holding a sheaf of wheat in its claw. With gilt bronze mountings. A tiny chip to one beak, restorations to the wheat and the upper part of the head of the second bird. H 16.8 and 16.3 cm.
Around 1765/66.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired from Röbbig art dealers in Munich in 1985.

Literature

Illus. in Backer, La porcellana in Europa, Novara 1968, pl. VII.
A further pair pub. in Lenz, Berliner Porzellan Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 – 1786, vol. 1, Berlin 1913, illus. 56 f., former Königliches Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin.
A further pair mentioned among the losses suffered by the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Heim, Die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension 1751 – 1825, Berlin 2016, p. 574, no. 3.