A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with putti behind bars - image-1
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Lot 245 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with putti behind bars

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 7.560 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain cup and saucer with putti behind bars

Model no. 1372. The cup painted with amoretti behind golden bars in five black grounded reserves, with a further motif to the saucer, against a gold ground etched to resemble a brick wall. Blue sceptre mark with blue enamel dash, iron red painter's mark. H cup 9.6, D saucer 15.2 cm.
Around 1805 - 10.

The motif of this cup, Cupids behind bars, was produced at the same time by KPM Berlin and the Imperial Vienna Porcelain Manufactory.

Provenance

North German private collection.

Literature

Cf. Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz. Königliche Porzellane des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection New York, Munich 2007, cat. No. 51 f.

A Viennese cup with the same motif in the Bloch-Bauer Collection (in Ernst, Wiener Porzellan des Klassizismus, Vienna 1925, no. 107, pl. XXVIII).

S.a. Lehner-Jobst, fig. 19 (cat. Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, p. 32), offered in Lempertz Berlin auction 1150 on 25 April 2020, lot 28. This cup was dated 1817.