Lot Essay
A similar cup and saucer with slightly different gilding is illustrated in Georg Lenz, op. cit. (n.d.), Vol. II, fig. 565.
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CIRCA 1780, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS AND GILDER'S 3. TO CUP AND SAUCER
Details
A Berlin Royal cabinet-cup, cover and saucer
Circa 1780, underglaze blue sceptre marks and gilder's 3. to cup and saucer
Of Sèvres form with double entwined loop handle, the cup painted en grisaille with a named portrait of FRED.GUILLAUME. PR.DE.PRUSSE. within a shaped oval gilt cartouche festooned with a garland of laurel and tied below with gilt palms, against a dark-blue gilt-scale ground, the saucer with a trophy including a map of Italy inscribed Hier ist rom within a similar circular cartouche, the domed cover with bud finial (slight scratching to gilding on saucer and rubbing to rim of cup)
Circa 1780, underglaze blue sceptre marks and gilder's 3. to cup and saucer
Of Sèvres form with double entwined loop handle, the cup painted en grisaille with a named portrait of FRED.GUILLAUME. PR.DE.PRUSSE. within a shaped oval gilt cartouche festooned with a garland of laurel and tied below with gilt palms, against a dark-blue gilt-scale ground, the saucer with a trophy including a map of Italy inscribed Hier ist rom within a similar circular cartouche, the domed cover with bud finial (slight scratching to gilding on saucer and rubbing to rim of cup)
Provenance
Lempertz June 1975, no. 725 (DM. 3,680)
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