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A Berlin KPM porcelain fruit basket from a royal dessert service

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 12.600 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain fruit basket from a royal dessert service

Unidentified model, fired in one piece. Pierced basketweave design above a frieze of matte gilded foliage. The gilded base painted with a wreath of Autumn crocuses. Blue sceptre mark with pale red dash below, brown astrological sign of Mars, brown eagle mark, blue enamel owner's mark "K P.v.P." H 17, D 26.8 cm.
After 1823, model by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

The fruit basket is thought to originate from a dessert service that was made for the wedding of Prince Carl of Prussia to Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1827 and which later came into the possession of his son, Field Marshal General Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, after Carl's death in 1883.

Provenance

Former estate of Prince Karl of Prussia (1828 - 1885).

Literature

For the model s. Köllmann/Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, text volume, Munich 1987, ill. p. 177.

Cf. cat. Orden auf königlichem Porzellan. Das Tafelservice vom Eisernen Helm und die Feldherrenporzellane der königlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin, Eichenzell 2013, cat. no. 2.10, for the same model, one of originally eight baskets from the military service for Prince William of Prussia.