Object Number 2001.0003.019.002 A, B

Object Name

Sugar bowl

Title

Infanterie Francaise./ Cavallerie Francaise.

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Alice Braunfeld

Creator (Role)

Berlin Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Konigliche Porzellan Manufactur or K. P. M.) (Maker)
1763-Present

Johann Baptist Seele (Design inspiration)

Place of Origin

Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Date

1800-1820

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Mark; Underside; Underglaze blue scepter with a blue underglaze dash below
2. Mark; Underside; Scratched into body, three parallel dashes
3. Inscription; Underside; Painted in brown enamel script, "Infanterie Francaise./ Cavallerie Francaise."

Subjects

Military

Materials

Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze

Techniques

Thrown, Molded, Painted, Gilded

Dimensions (inches)

4.528 (H) , 3.268 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

11.5 (H) , 8.3 (Diam)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Baer, Winfried. 1980 Berlin Porcelain.
• Apple-green-bordered part solitair (single coffee service) with pots of similar overall form, but shorter. Konish model, c. 1795: pp. 58-59, no. 67,
[Book] Baer, Winfried & Ostergard, Derek E. 1993 Along the Royal Road: Berlin and Pottsdan in KPM porcelain and painting, 1815-1848.
• Related published material.
[Book] Wittwer, Samuel. 2007 Refinement and Elegance: Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection, New York.
• Berlin & Sevres porcelain with military scenes in somewhat similar style: pp. 380-85 (Berlin), 396-99 (Sevres), early 1800s. Plate depicting French infantry on p. 384 is based on the same print as the sugar bowl in this set.
[Book] Wittwer, Samuel. 2007 Refinement and Elegance: Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection, New York.
• Colored aquatint after Johann Baptist Seele (1800-10) as design source & similarly decorated Berlin plate, 1803-13: pp. 384-5, no. 128