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A Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain part dinner-service
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A Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain part dinner-service

CIRCA 1850, BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, PRINTED IRON-RED ORB AND KPM MARKS, PUCE ENTWINED FW CYPHERS FOR KING FRIEDRICH WILHELM IV, THE SAUCEBOAT AND SMALL DISH WITH PRINTED BLUE PFENNING MARKS

Details
A Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain part dinner-service
Circa 1850, blue sceptre marks, printed iron-red orb and KPM marks, puce entwined FW cyphers for King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the sauceboat and small dish with printed blue Pfenning marks
The moulded gilt C-scroll and feuilles-de-choux borders with blue convolvulus sprays, comprising:
Four shaped oval serving dishes (one with large ground rim chip to underside, two with footrim chips)
Another, similar with the entwined WR monogram for Emperor Wilhelm I (cracked to well)
A double-lipped lobed oval sauceboat painted with up-turned baskets of pink roses and scattered insects
A small quatrefoil dish (rubbing to gilding)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

This service is closely modelled on a service which Frederick the Great commissioned for Schloss Charlottenburg in 1772. The borders of the present pieces correspond to Frederick The Great's service, but the centres of the plates lack the up-turned baskets of flowers present on both Frederick's service and the double-lipped sauceboat of the present lot. A dessert-plate from Frederick The Great's service, now at Schloss Köpenick, is illustrated by Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Munich, 1987, Vol. II, p. 440, fig. 268, and a dinner-plate, now in the Dr. K.H. Wadsack Collection, is illustrated on p. 444, fig. 279.

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