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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE SOLITAIRE
Lot 231

A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE SOLITAIRE

CIRCA 1890, BLUE SCEPTRE AND IRON-RED ORB MARKS, MODEL NO. 1726, IMPRESSED CYPHERS, GILT NUMERALS AND SIGNED WITH A HT MONOGRAM FOR HERMANN THIELE

Closed18 April 2013

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE SOLITAIRE
CIRCA 1890, BLUE SCEPTRE AND IRON-RED ORB MARKS, MODEL NO. 1726, IMPRESSED CYPHERS, GILT NUMERALS AND SIGNED WITH A HT MONOGRAM FOR HERMANN THIELE
In the Neo-Rococo taste, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with portrait medallions on polychrome bands of intricately enriched foliage and ovolo, comprising: a coffee-pot and cover, a sugar-bowl and cover, a hot-milk jug and cover, a coffee-cup and a quatrefoil tray
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) wide, the tray (8)

Specialist note

Hermann Thiele is recorded at Berlin (K.P.M.) in the 1890's. For an entry noting Thiele's favored motif as female heads in profile and an illustration of a solitaire of similar design, see B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte,The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, pp. 192 & 225 and pl. XXLIX.