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The Twinight Collection
Lot 116*

A Berlin portrait cup and saucer, circa 1800-10

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,280 inc. premium

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A Berlin portrait cup and saucer, circa 1800-10

The bell-shaped cup applied with a biscuit relief profile bust of Alexius Friedrich Christian Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767-1834) facing sinister, after Leonhard Posch, on an oval tooled gilt-ground medallion flanked by foliate scrollwork, the saucer with a similar border, the saucer: 14.8cm diam.; the cup: 11.4cm high, sceptre marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 10 (cup) and 28 (saucer), impressed II on the saucer (2)

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Provenance:
Private collection, Berlin, sold by Lempertz Berlin, 27 May 2006, lot 83;
The Twinight Collection

See Anne Forschler-Tarrant, Leonhard Posch (2002), no. 1, for the medallion by Posch.

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