German Romantic KPM La Gondole D’amour Porcelain Plaque

A large sized ‘Sevres‘ porcelain box. The box decorated with a base of cobalt blue with gild scrollwork decoration throughout. The lid featuring a large painted panel with a classica...

Fine ‘Vienna‘ Austria porcelain vase. The vase of Classic Roman shape with flared rim and pinched neck with scrolling shoulders and tapered body stood...

Antique 18th century fruitwood carved Memento Mori Skull. The skull of petrified display powerfully carved in the form of a human skull consisting of the cranium, upper and lower jaws, the cadaverous face with deliberate missing tooth in brown wash patination throughout. Stood upon a small marble base with the skull attaching via a dowel fitting. The Skull probably from German origin. Notes  From approximately the sixteenth century, skulls were commonly used to remember death as they symbolise the transience of human life. Memento Mori literal Latin translation means remember that you [have to] die. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity, and appeared in funeral art and architecture of the medieval period. Memento Mori jewellery...

Unusual 1920's German oversized glass flute. The flute with circular base and tapered body with gilt rim opening and stylised bubble decoration within the stem. To each side etched decoration with a Memento mori to one side and an insignia reading SUUM CUIQUE to the other representing the Order of the Black Eagle. Notes suum cuique, Latin translated as "to each his own" or "may all get their due". It has been significant in the history of philosophy and as a motto. The Order of the Black Eagle as seen on the glass is the current emblem for the German Military Police. Originally the Order of the Black Eagle was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia. The order was founded on 17 January 1701 by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg (Friedrich I King of Prussia). In his Dutch exile after World War I, deposed Emperor Wilhelm...

The minaudière of rectangular form with curved corners features a repousse monkey which humorously goes through the case with the front side of the monkey on the cover and the rear side of the monkey on the back. The exterior of the case is gilded Silver with cabochon Sapphires and a top carry loop. To the left of the top a second loop contains the original pencil which pulls out for taking notes upon the ivorine notepad within. The interior of the case features several compartments which open via the Sapphire tabs, the left side contains two smaller compartments while the right side features a bevel edged mirror with an ivorine notepad to the reverse and a spring loaded tab to the compartment. The case is hallmarked in several locations with the London ‘omega’ import mark (1906-1998), the import Silversmiths mark Gresham Barber & Co and is dated 1907. Although the minaudière does not bear the original makers hallmark we firmly attribute the case to Louis Kuppenheim a renowned German Silversmith who made designs matching this minaudière. Louis Kuppenheim (1824-1889)was founded in 1854 together with Heinrich Witzemann they were located in Pforzheim, southwestern Germany and is known as the gateway to the Black Forest. In 1857 Kuppenheim moved forward as a solo business without his partner and moved to Durlacher Straße 1, Old Town street in Pforzheim. Upon the death of Louis Kuppenheim in 1889 3 of his 6 children (Albert, Hugo and Moritz) took over running the company and in 1900 at the Universal Exhibition in Paris the firm won a gold medal for a paper knife. In the same year the company opened the first store in the Rue de Richelieu 67 in Paris. In the 1900s Hans Christiansen designed some silver parts and pieces of jewellery, which were made by the Manufacture Kuppenheim. Christiansen was an important Art Nouveau painter and a member of the Darmstadt artists’ colony. In 1906 Albert, Hugo and Moritz convert the inherited jewellery factory into a modern gold and silverware fabrication and one year later relocated to 69 Durocher Street. Over the next 30 years the company expanded their business with mechanical workshops for gold and silver along with more machinery along with the death of Albert Kuppenheim and Ludwig (another son of Louis) taking over the company. After the war broke out in 1939 the company went into liquidation ending its 82 year history. During the heyday of the company over 200 people were employed by Louis Kuppenheim making it one of the most important employers in the jewellery city of Pforzheim. In the more than eighty years of production some 100,000 pieces left the company. Kuppenheim made many items in small series, for example boxes and minaudières (women’s fashion accessory, generally considered a jewellery piece, intended to substitute for an evening bag. A case with compartments, it allows storage for several items in a small space, such as a makeup compact, lipstick, watch, reading glasses, or keys) and compacts and cigarette cases...

Large Amphora porcelain figural group featuring two lionesses attacking an elephant. The figure of extraordinary size measuring 66.5cm High (26.18inches) featuring a large elephant s...

Signed rectangular hand painted portrait on porcelain, showing a woman with flowers, with KPM mark verso. Maker: K.P.M. Origin: ...

German KPM porcelain plaque of an interior bedroom scene German, late 19th century Dimensions: Frame height 38cm, width 44cm, plaque height 26.5cm, width 31cm This fine porcelai...

'Clementine', A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Conrad Kiesel. In a fine pierced giltwood and composition frame. Inscribed 'nach C. Kiesel'...

A fine KPM porcelain plaque depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Play Othello, after the painting by Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, (German, 1820-1900).  Signed ‘R. Wagner’. Impressed mark to the reverse ‘KPM’ (Konigliche Porzellan...

A very fine German KPM porcelain plaque depicting a beauty floating ecstatically above a bed of flowers. Signed: Knys Impressed KPM and sceptre mark. Circa 1900 Dimensions: ...

A fine Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain plaque of A Vestal Virgin, after Angelica Kauffman, in a giltwood frame. Impressed sceptre mark, 'KPM', letter 'H', ...