CIRCA 1780, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) OVIFORM SILHOUETTE VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1780, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK
The fluted body reserved with two oval pink-ground medallions with black silhouette profile portraits of a gentleman and a lady, within gilt wreath cartouches suspended from a horizonal moulded border of gilt foliage, the lower part moulded with up-turned gilt acanthus below a band of gilt beaded ornament, the domed cover with flutes radiating from a circular panel surmounted by a gilt eagle finial (cover broken across through eagle's claws and repaired, eagle's head restuck and repaired, wear to gilding, very slight scratches to black enamel)
12¼ in. (31.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A vase of the same form in the Karl H. Bröhan Collection, Berlin (with a neo-classical profile portrait), is illustrated in 'Porzellan-Kunst' Schloss Charlottenburg Exhibition Catalogue (1969), pl. 53, Kat. Nr. 279. Another example in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, with a grisaille portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II (when the Prinz von Preussen), is illustrated by Erich Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan (Berlin, 1966), Vol. I, pl. 36a, and again by Erich Köllmann and Margareta Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, p. 570, fig. 524.

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