A Berlin KPM porcelain cup with allegories of the four seasons
Smooth vase-shaped beaker with two entwined snakes forming the handle. With original saucer. The centre decorated with allegorical figures, the upper and lower borders with tendrils in relief. The saucer decorated with three sacrificial altar motifs. Blue sceptre mark with blue dashes above and below, impressed no. 36.
Circa 1805.
Provenance
House of Hanover.
Sotheby's Hanover on October 9, 2005, lot 2306.
The Twinight Collection, sold Lempertz Berlin sale 1125 on November 7, 2018, lot 44.
Literature
Illustrated in Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz. Königliche Porzellane des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection New York, München 2007, cat. no. 52.
Cf. Köllmann / Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Bildband, Munich 1987, illus. 468a/b.
Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009