A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid - image-2

Lot 110 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.750 € (incl. premium)

A Berlin KPM porcelain bonbonnière with Venus and Cupid

Model no. 2319. Rounded bombé form box with original lid. Finely painted with a depiction of the recumbent Venus upon a red drapery amid clouds, accompanied by her son Cupid. The edges and side faces with relief gold tendrils. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark, impressed mark P and 2, gold painter's mark Fr. H 8.5, W 11.4 cm.
C. 1890.

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

Cf. this box form in: Dietz, Blühende Zeit der KPM, die Weichmalerei auf Berliner Porzellan, Petersberg 2013, no. G 40, p. 432.