Accession Number

983.124

Description

A white porcelain jardinière hand-painted in stylized foliate and floral motifs in green, blue, red and yellow colours, the flat stepped pedestal base with one band of gold, the upper rim painted dark red with three bands of gold below it alternating in thick, thin, and thick lines, the base with one drainage hole in the centre, the bottom of the base marked KPM in blue beneath the clear glaze, a single blue line leading from above the P to the centre hole, the number 6991 painted by hand in red, an indistinct impressed mark of a 0 above a possible number 2 separated by a horizontal line.

History of Use

Unknown

Date

circa 1885

Dimensions

14 x 16 cm

Material

Ceramic, porcelain

Technique

Moulded; Painted; Fired

Inscription

KPM (on the bottom exterior in transfer-printed blue upper-case letters under clear glaze)
6991 (on the bottom in red hand-painted numbering)

Country of Origin

Germany