Lot Essay
For other similarly composed groups, see Kurt Röder, Das Kelsterbacher Porzellan, pl. 1a.
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CIRCA 1761-64
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A KELSTERBACH GROUP OF 'DECLARATION OF LOVE OVER THE COFFEE-TABLE'
CIRCA 1761-64
Modelled by Johann Carl Vogelmann, with a gallant and a lady seated at an oval table, the table with a coffee-pot, sugar-bowl and cup, the lady holding a cup in her hand, the gallant with his hand to his heart and with his tricorn hat under his arm, before a flat four-storey pavilion narrowing to a conical roof, with pierced windows and flanked by two cypresses beyond and framed by two arched branches of foliage meeting at the pavilion, on a rococo scroll-moulded platform on a pierced rocaille-moulded support on an elongated shaped rocaille-moulded mound base, the ends with two further cypresses above scroll supports behind two soldiers standing to attention with muskets and swords (chipping to foliate arch, ribbons, sugar-bowl, his left thumb, soldiers' swords, right soldier's musket, minute chipping to edge of base)
6 3/8 in. (16.1 cm.) high
CIRCA 1761-64
Modelled by Johann Carl Vogelmann, with a gallant and a lady seated at an oval table, the table with a coffee-pot, sugar-bowl and cup, the lady holding a cup in her hand, the gallant with his hand to his heart and with his tricorn hat under his arm, before a flat four-storey pavilion narrowing to a conical roof, with pierced windows and flanked by two cypresses beyond and framed by two arched branches of foliage meeting at the pavilion, on a rococo scroll-moulded platform on a pierced rocaille-moulded support on an elongated shaped rocaille-moulded mound base, the ends with two further cypresses above scroll supports behind two soldiers standing to attention with muskets and swords (chipping to foliate arch, ribbons, sugar-bowl, his left thumb, soldiers' swords, right soldier's musket, minute chipping to edge of base)
6 3/8 in. (16.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 613 (£850 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 210, no. 318 and col. pl. 84.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.