PERIOD: 19th Century
NYMPHENBURG ROYAL PORTRAIT COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER CIRCA 1816, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARKS, IMPRESSED IV TO CUP, SAUCER INCISED 5 AND WITH INDISTINCT NUMERALS The cup painted in sepia with a quarter-length portrait of Queen Karoline of Bavaria wearing a plumed cap and Renaissance-style dress within an oval gilt line cartouche, the sides and saucer border with gilt tooled flower-sprays, gilt band rims (areas of gilding possbily retouched near footrim) Lot Notes Queen Karoline (1776-1841), daughter of Karl Ludwig Prince of Baden, was the second wife of Maximilian Duke of Zweibr
PRIX: $2000