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A rare pair of Berlin double-handled beakers from the Duke of Wellington Service, circa 1817 image 1
A rare pair of Berlin double-handled beakers from the Duke of Wellington Service, circa 1817 image 2
The Twinight Collection
Lot 83*

A rare pair of Berlin double-handled beakers from the Duke of Wellington Service, circa 1817

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

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A rare pair of Berlin double-handled beakers from the Duke of Wellington Service, circa 1817

Each with a burnished gold ground and interior, reserved with a tooled foliate scrollwork border below the rim and painted leaves at the base, the inside rim with a tooled foliate border, 7.7cm high, sceptre marks in underglaze-blue. impressed 18 to both (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Twinight Collection (purchased from Seidel & Son in 2005)

Literature:
S. Wittwer, Raffinesse & Eleganz: Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection, New York (2007), no. 132

Exhibited:
Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Schloss Charlottenburg, Rafinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunders aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, 28 July-4 November 2007;
Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800-1840, 16 November 2007-11 February 2008;
Paris, Musée national de la céramique à Sèvres, Sèvres - Vienne - Berlin, Ors et décors : 1800-1850, 26 March-13 July 2008;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Refinement & Elegance - Early Nineteenth Century Royal porcelain from an American private collection, 9 September 2008-19 April 2009

The service for the Duke of Wellington represents one of the greatest technical and artistic achievements of the Berlin manufactory in the first half of the 19th century. See W. & I. Baer, Das Tafelservice der KPM für den Herzog von Wellington (1988), for a comprehensive discussion of the service, most of which is still displayed at Apsley House in London. The service included 36 such golden beakers, which were intended for jelly or ice; see W. & I. Baer, op. cit., ill. 46 for other examples.

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