A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE CELADON-GROUND CHARGER

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE SCEPTRE AND IRON-RED ORB MARKS, BLACK 2476, GILT K., SIGNED M

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE CELADON-GROUND CHARGER
Late 19th/early 20th century, blue sceptre and iron-red orb marks, black 2476, gilt K., signed M
The center finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a nymph standing, holding a bracelet in her raised right hand, a branch of lily in her left, on an arched celadon ground within raised gilt sinuous lines enclosing stylized pine and green-jeweled grasses, the matte green border with trailing scrolling gilt branches and cones
13 5/8in. (34.5cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, London, 1992, pp. 190-193 for a discussion of the pâte-sur-pâte productions and possible signatures on Berlin porcelain and fig. 145 for a plaque decorated by Hermann Monno in a similar style.

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