A BERLIN CHINOISERIE LEMON-BASKET CENTREPIECE OR ZITRONENKORB

CIRCA 1770, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M.

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A BERLIN CHINOISERIE LEMON-BASKET CENTREPIECE OR ZITRONENKORB
CIRCA 1770, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M.
Modelled by Wilhelm Christian Meyer, with an elegant lady in a pale-yellow lined pink jacket tied with a sash over a gilt-striped skirt holding a parakeet in one hand and a table-bell in the other, and with a boy attendant holding a fan in a purple jacket and striped yellow trousers with a conical feathered hat straped to his back, flanking a palm tree with tiers of foliage and applied with trailing pink flowers supporting a pierced conical basket enriched in gilding and applied with trailing pink flowers, the interior with flower-sprays within a Gitterwerk border, on a circular rockwork base (minute chipping to applied flowers, minute flaking to enamels)
14 5/8 in. (37 cm.) high

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There are three lemon-baskets of this type known. A Zitronenkorb was originally designed for the Japanisches Tafelservice, ordered by Frederick The Great for use in the Chinese Pavilion at Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam, and executed between 1769 and 1770. Lenz published a Zitronenkorb in 1913 which at the time was still in the possession of the Royal Hohenzollern family, and this was subsequently published by Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Munich, 1987, Vol. II, p. 441, nos. 271a-c, where it was described as being in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloß Köpenick, Berlin. It is thought that this is most probably the one which was once part of the Japanisches Service, but this is not absolutely certain, and the whereabouts of this example is currently unknown. The other known example, from a private collection, is currently on loan to the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg.