A Berlin KPM porcelain tête à tête with Watteau scenes
A Berlin KPM porcelain tête à tête with Watteau scenes
Model no. 122. Comprising coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl with original lids, two cups with original saucers. All pieces finely decorated with Commedia dell'Arte figures. Blue sceptre mark, incised mark II (tray, sugar pot and teapot), and III (milk jug), pressnummers 4 (cups) and 5 (teapot). The tray and the teapot spout restored. W tray 36.2, H coffee pot with lid 18 cm.
Circa 1770.
These humorous commedia dell'arte scenes were based on works by Antoine Watteau (1684 – 1721): "Les Jaloux" (the tray), "La Leçon d'Amour" and L'Enchanteur (the coffee pot), "Le plèrinage à l'Isle de Cythère" (tea pot), "La perspective" (milk jug) and "La Serenade Italienne" (sugar box). The engravings from which workers at the Berlin manufactory copied the scenes were produced by Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin II (1689 - 1755) or Charles Dupuis (1685 – 1742). They not only had access to engravings of works by Watteau, but also Nicolas Lancret and Jean Siméon Chardin, whose designs also provided the porcelain painters with ample sources of inspiration.
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"Cf. the wide variety of Commedia dell'arte motifs in Watteau's oeuvre illustrated in cat. Watteau 1684 - 1721, Berlin 1985.
Cf. An identical service with identical decor but in full polychromy in cat. Berliner Porzellan 1763 - 1850, Münster 2006, no. 67 / 68.
Further examples of Watteau motifs on porcelain in Baer/Baer, Blumen für den König, Berlin 1992, no. 11."
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A Berlin KPM porcelain tête à tête with Watteau scenes
Model no. 122. Comprising coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl with original lids, two cups with original saucers. All pieces finely decorated with Commedia dell'Arte figures. Blue sceptre mark, incised mark II (tray, sugar pot and teapot), and III (milk jug), pressnummers 4 (cups) and 5 (teapot). The tray and the teapot spout restored. W tray 36.2, H coffee pot with lid 18 cm.
Circa 1770.
These humorous commedia dell'arte scenes were based on works by Antoine Watteau (1684 – 1721): "Les Jaloux" (the tray), "La Leçon d'Amour" and L'Enchanteur (the coffee pot), "Le plèrinage à l'Isle de Cythère" (tea pot), "La perspective" (milk jug) and "La Serenade Italienne" (sugar box). The engravings from which workers at the Berlin manufactory copied the scenes were produced by Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin II (1689 - 1755) or Charles Dupuis (1685 – 1742). They not only had access to engravings of works by Watteau, but also Nicolas Lancret and Jean Siméon Chardin, whose designs also provided the porcelain painters with ample sources of inspiration.
Literature
"Cf. the wide variety of Commedia dell'arte motifs in Watteau's oeuvre illustrated in cat. Watteau 1684 - 1721, Berlin 1985.
Cf. An identical service with identical decor but in full polychromy in cat. Berliner Porzellan 1763 - 1850, Münster 2006, no. 67 / 68.
Further examples of Watteau motifs on porcelain in Baer/Baer, Blumen für den König, Berlin 1992, no. 11."
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