CIRCA 1823, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE ABOVE STENCILLED BROWN EAGLE OVER K.P.M. MARK

Details

A Berlin documentary two-handled krater Vase and a plinth
Circa 1823, underglaze blue sceptre above stencilled brown eagle over K.P.M. mark
Painted with figures promenading and at various pursuits on Unter den Linden with the Brandenburg gate in the distance, signed J. Forstf, in the lower left-hand corner and named Die Linden Promenade in Berlin below within the rectangular gilt palmette cartouche, the reverse with a salmon-pink ground rectangular panel richly gilt with scrolling foliage within a white rectangular border gilt with palmettes and scrolls, the bulbous lower part richly gilt and chased with scrolling foliage on a hatched ground and with gilt loop handles, the waisted gilt foot and square narrow plinth base similarly decorated, the richly gilt upper rim with a band of scrolling foliage against a vermiculé ground, the vase standing on a high plinth with green-ground panels to the sides with gilt scrolling foliage within gilt borders (slight scratch and rubbing to top surface of lower plinth)
22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm.) high overall (2)

Provenance

Rohloff Collection no. 1973 4

Literature

Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, fig. 546.

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Sale room notice

Please note that the vase has a restored area at the top of the foot and the lot should have a triangle symbol next to the lot number.

Lot Essay

The view of Unter den Linden with the Brandenburg Gate in the distance is derived from an engraving by Friedrich August Schmidt after a drawing by Friedrich August Calau. For another vase in the Berlin Museum with a similar view (but with some of the figures in the street omitted), see Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, 'Berlin Museum, Kunstgewerbe I, Keramik' Catalogue (Berlin, 1985), p. 118, no. 113. This form of vase, Vase Medicis Rhedensche Sorte, was named after Graf Wilhelm von Rheden who was Chairman of the KPM Commission.

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