An exhibition parcel-gilt white-ground KPM porcelain vase and cover

CIRCA 1899

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An exhibition parcel-gilt white-ground KPM porcelain vase and cover
Circa 1899
The pierced domed lid surmounted by yellow roses, the ovoid body flanked to each side by a foliate handle, the front and back each with a reserved panel, respectively of Kaiser Wilhelm II and of the Neue Palais of Potstdam, on a waisted socle with foliate corona, on a shaped spreading circular base, the reverse impressed 3161 D 5 and inscribed KPM with globe mark, the Kaiser's portrait signed with the initials M.D.
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This picturesque ovoid pot-pourri vase, crowned by Venus's sacred roses and nestled amongst Pan's 'fertility' reeds, celebrates Berlin's Konigliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM). A medallion portrait of the factory's patron, Kaiser Wilhelm II, accompanies a vignette depicting Potsdam's Neues Palais crowned by Venus's Graces and built by Fredrick the Great, who granted Royal patronage; to the manufactory in the l760s. Berlin's KPM participiated in the great exhibitions of the nineteenth century, and its history was published in G. Kolbe, Geschichte der Koniglischen Porzellan-manufakur zu Berlin, l863. (see J. Nicht, Potsdam. Biler aug Porzellan, Berlin, l982).

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