TWO BERLIN (KPM) GOLD-GROUND MARTIAL TRIPOD PEDESTALS
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TWO BERLIN (KPM) GOLD-GROUND MARTIAL TRIPOD PEDESTALS

CIRCA 1815, BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, BLUE AND RED ENAMEL CIRCLE AND ARROW PAINTER'S MARKS

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TWO BERLIN (KPM) GOLD-GROUND MARTIAL TRIPOD PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1815, BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, BLUE AND RED ENAMEL CIRCLE AND ARROW PAINTER'S MARKS
Each of spreading triangular section with concave sides, the sides reserved with oval portrait medallions of Prussian military figures, surrounded by ciselé laurel branches on one, the canted corners of both terminating in paw feet on concave triangular blue and gilt simulated lapis lazuli plinth bases with canted corners (one with chip to upper corner and two corners of base, large scratch to gilding of one facet and slight mis-firing to gilding, other with slight chipping to corners of base, both with very slight areas of wear)
3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

For a pedestal of similar form with a similar painter's mark (but with the addition of an ovaler Urne) in the Berlin Museum, Berlin, see Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, 'Berlin Museum, Keramik' Catalogue (Berlin, 1985), pp. 85-86, no. 80, and also Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, pp. 630-1, no. 642.

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