A Berlin KPM porcelain teapot with imitation ...

A Berlin KPM porcelain teapot with imitation lapis lazuli

Model "hetrurisch" with original lid. The model of a seated woman and the body painted to resemble mottled lapis lazuli. The shoulders with a border of flowering tendrils in imitation pietra dura on Pompeii red ground. Blue sceptre mark with grey dash below, impressed no, incised II. H 14.5 cm.

Circa 1805.

** Provenance
Purchased in 2003 from Ulrich Gronert.

** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007

Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008

Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009