MONUMENTAL PORCELAIN STATE JUG WITH SOFT PASTE DECOR.
KPM. Berlin. ca. 1913. Model Alexander Kips. Painted d閏or by Franz Aulich.

Porcelain; enriched in colours and gold. Over open worked foot with Rocaille decor ovoid corpus with large; opposite rocaille cartouches; partly with relief gold decor. In it splendid flower bouquets in the finest soft paste decor. The slender neck with raised; three-dimensional ribbed shell rocaille on one side. Nestled against it a young woman; accompanied by a small cupid; forming the handle of the pot. Opposite wide spout with
grape; below on the body large mascaron of a laughing pan; surrounded by further
fully plastic grapes. Height 76cm.
Condition B. One very small and professional restoration to one of the leaves near the spout.

Provenance:
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

Literature:
Dietz; Franca: Blossoming period of the KPM. Soft painting on Berlin porcelain. The
Collection Hassan Sabet; Petersberg 2013; s. on the era of Kips from p.85ff. and on Franz Aulich respectively p.91ff.
A model drawing of this vase by Alexander Knips from the year 1891.
and pictured p.104; fig.56.Art trade; Van Ham.