A Berlin coffee-can and saucer
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A Berlin coffee-can and saucer

CIRCA 1800, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND PAINTER'S IRON-RED 6. MARKS, CUP WITH PRESSNUMMER 5 AND INCISED /// TO FOOTRIM, SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 13 AND INCISED / TO FOOTRIM

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A Berlin coffee-can and saucer
Circa 1800, underglaze blue sceptre and painter's iron-red 6. marks, cup with Pressnummer 5 and incised /// to footrim, saucer with Pressnummer 13 and incised / to footrim
The coffee-can with one of the Fates making an offering before an altar inscribed above Ich bete für Dein Wohl. within a gilt ovolo band, the saucer with two figures of the fates, one holding a bobbin inscribed above O! lasf mich noch lange diesen theuren Lebensfaden spinnen. within a similar gilt ovolo band, gilt line rims
Literature
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. II, fig. 449.
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Lot Essay

The two figures of the Fates on the cup are taken from a preparatory drawing by Gustav Friedrich Taubert (see Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. I, p. 198. The same subject, but differently treated, occurs on a cup and saucer in Erich Köllmann op. cit. (Berlin, 1966), Vol. II, fig. 178 b.

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