CIRCA 1821-23, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND ORANGE DASH MARKS, PAINTER'S BLACK MARKS, CUP WITH PRESSNUMMER 2, SAUCER WITH 20

Details

A Berlin cabinet-cup and saucer
Circa 1821-23, underglaze blue sceptre and orange dash marks, painter's black marks, cup with Pressnummer 2, saucer with 20
The cup of flared form on three gilt paw feet and with high scroll handle, painted with Das neue Schauspielhaus zu Berlin. named in black script on the underside, within a square panel with canted corners on a white ground with gilt interlocking scrolling foliage, the saucer with a similar ground, gilt line rim (very slight rubbing to paw feet, the saucer with scratch to gilding)

Provenance

Rohloff Collection no. 1972 10

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Lot Essay

After the original theatre on the site, designed by Carl Gottard Langhans, burnt down in 1817, Schinkel was commissioned to build a new theatre. The Schauspielhaus was built between 1818 and 1821. The graphic source for this cup is almost certainly the engraving by Carl Friedrich Thiele after Schinkel of the theatre as seen from the North-East.

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