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A Berlin KPM porcelain tête à tête with Neoclassical busts

Auction 1150 - overview Berlin
16.05.2020, 12:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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A Berlin KPM porcelain tête à tête with Neoclassical busts

Model no. 633, neuglatt. Comprising a dish with insets for two cups and covers. The dish and both cups decorated with finely painted portraits of Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and the Roman Emperor Augustus. Blue sceptre mark, painter's mark 2 in grey, incised III (cups). The insets and rose finials restored, the gilding partially retouched. W dish 28.8 cm.
Circa 1775 - 80.

Literature

An example of the same model with portraits of Tsars made for the Russian grand prince Pavel Petrovitch, in: Cat. Von Sanssouci nach Europa. Geschenke Friedrichs des Großen an europäische Höfe, Potsdam 1994. p. 134.
This model in: Lenz, Berliner Porzellan, Berlin 1913, pl. 120, illus. 550.
Cf. also: Köllmann, Berliner Porzellan, Braunschweig 1966, pl. 122 a.