Kpm Berlin – Bacchante With Putto – 1910 Brussels World’s Fair

KPM Berlin – Bacchante with Putto – 1910 Brussels World’s Fair

KPM Berlin Bacchante with Putto – Brussels World Exhibition 1910

Rare KPM Berlin porcelain group depicting a Bacchante with putto and wineskin, based on an 18th-century model dating from circa 1775.

Around 1910, the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin revived the historic Rococo model and reinterpreted it for contemporary taste with a striking modern colour scheme. An identical composition is documented in a contemporary photograph of the German section at the Brussels World Exhibition of 1910, where it was displayed in a showcase as part of the KPM presentation.

The Brussels exhibition appears to represent one of the earliest public presentations of this newly interpreted historic model and may possibly have been its international premiere.

Model: KPM Berlin, circa 1775
Revival / new interpretation: circa 1910
Manufactory: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, KPM
Material: Porcelain, polychrome decoration and gilding

Marks:
Blue sceptre mark
Red KPM orb mark
Blind-stamped letter K = 1910
Black Iron Cross war mark

The blind-stamped K dates the white porcelain body to 1910, exactly the year in which this model is historically documented at the Brussels World Exhibition. The additional Iron Cross is the KPM war mark used during the First World War, indicating that the decoration/final completion of this particular example took place between 1914 and 1918.

Dimensions:
Height: 20 cm
Width: 11 cm
1 inch = 2.54 cm

Condition:
Very good condition.

Literature:
Georg Lenz, Berliner Porzellan. Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763–1786, Vol. II; see the documented series of four Bacchantes, model period circa 1775.

Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan im 20. Jahrhundert, Hamburg, 1988, p. 314, for the KPM annual blind stamps: K = 1910.

Deutschland auf der Weltausstellung in Brüssel 1910, contemporary documentation of the German section and the KPM presentation.

Viewing by appointment at:
Denes Szy, Kunsthandel
Königsallee 27–31
D-40212 Düsseldorf

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