A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-3
A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-2A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover - image-3

Lot 81 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 10.080 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain vase and cover with a portrait of King Frederick II from the possession of the House of Hannover

Model no. 838. The original lid with an eagle finial. Decorated with a portrait of Frederick II en grisaille and his crowned monogram in two gilt etched laurel wreath surrounds. Blue sceptre mark. With losses and retouches to the gilding in some of the fluting. H 41.6 cm.
Around 1779 - 85, decor attributed to Franz Tittelbach.

Provenance

Royal House of Hannover, Marienburg Palace.
Auctioned by Sotheby's, Marienburg Palace, October 2005, lot 2293.
Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Pictured on the cover of cat. Königliche Eleganz Preußische Pracht 1763 2013, Düsseldorf 2013.
The model is described in Lenz's catalogue as "A large antique vase with raised rods. To this vase are 2 lids, one with a perching eagle, the other with a crown on a cushion for the Duke of Curland, painted with a K. 4th variety (14 inches)." (Lenz, Berliner Porzellan Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 - 1786, vol. 1, Berlin 1913, p. 36).
Cf. Lenz, Berliner Porzellan Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 - 1786, vol. 2, Berlin 1913, illus. 649 ff, for the same model with other portraits.