Lot 232
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A Berlin topographical coffee-can and saucer
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A Berlin topographical coffee-can and saucer

CIRCA 1802, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND ENAMEL DASH MARKS, CUP WITH PRESSNUMMER 33 OVER INCISED ////, SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 41

Details
A Berlin topographical coffee-can and saucer
Circa 1802, underglaze blue sceptre and enamel dash marks, cup with Pressnummer 33 over incised ////, saucer with Pressnummer 41
Attributed to Johann Hubert Anton Forst, painted with a view named below in black script Die Promenade beÿ den Zeltern im Thiergarten beÿ Berlin. within a rectangular gilt and black line cartouche, the border and angular handle with an orange line between gilt bands, the saucer with a central rosette within a gilt and black line well and similar border (rubbing to rim of can and slight rubbing to rim and well of saucer)
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1987, lot 58 (Swfrs. 4,180)
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The view is derived from an engraving by Peter Haas of 1793 derived from an earlier drawing by Friedrich August Calau. The same view occurs on a slightly later cup in the Berlin Museum and is illustrated by Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, 'Berlin Museum, Kunstgewerbe I, Keramik' Catalogue (Berlin, 1985), no. 210.

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