A Nymphenburg matt pale-blue ground cabinet-cup and saucer

CIRCA 1815, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK AND 2III (?) AND PAINTER'S ENAMEL Z4 TO SAUCER

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A Nymphenburg matt pale-blue ground cabinet-cup and saucer
Circa 1815, impressed shield mark and 2III (?) and painter's enamel z4 to saucer
The gilt loop handle with matt-gilt lion's head and dolphin's head terminals, the ground reserved with an oval gilt cartouche burnished with stiff-leaf ornament and enclosing a finely stippled portrait by Christian Adler of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in military uniform and wearing the military order of Max Joseph and the Star of St. Hubert and St. George, flanked by gilt cisel scrolling foliage issuing from winged herms and suspending a garland of flowers (minute wear to gilding at centre of saucer)

Lot Essay

For a Nymphenburg vase in the Buml Collection with a similar portrait of the Crown Prince Ludwig, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Buml (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 349, no. 1322.

Ludwig I (1792-1868) became King of Bavaria in 1825 and abdicated on 20 March 1848.

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