KPM Vase with Lid
Ovoid walls with a rounded shoulder and an overlapping, domed lid with a pine knob. On the wall and the lid a white, pale yellow and sky-blue cartouche framed by a finely lined, stylized floral relief decoration. Obverse reserve with a portrait of a girl in underglaze blue painting surrounded by tendrils, signed.
Scepter mark, red imperial orb mark
KPM Berlin about 1880-1900
Height: 36cm
According to information from KPM, the form is the model form of the Tannenzapf potpourris, first formed in 1775 based on a design by Friedrich Elias Meyer.
Literature:
-Dietz, Coll. Sabet, page 143
- Erich Köllmann/Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, illustrated book, plate 530, page 573