Three Nymphenburg Porcelain Cabinet Cups, Cups and Saucers, Early 19th Century.

Lot: 118

Nymphenburg, German.
Circa 1800 - 1825.
One, a straight-sided commemorative can and saucer, painted with black ground, silhouette to one side, dedicated in a white reserve surrounded by green laurel leaves to Georg Chrstian/Seefrid/Koen.Cam. Exp. Rath/ Geb XIII Merz MDCCXXXII/starb/ am IX Febr. MDCCCV. The verso, Erstarb-or lebt/ Er ist es werth,/Dafs Ihn/Ein Angedenchen /ehrt reserved within a wreath of pink roses and blue forget-me-nots. All under gilt bands. The second, also a straight-sided can and saucer, painted with a pale yellow ground, under a gilt bands and a band of gilt scrolling Florentine flowers and flower heads with a vedutta of the named view, Residenz Stdt/Mnchen. The third a waisted straight-sided cup on stepped foot, with curling scroll handle, with gilt bands to rims, and gilt reserve with a long view of the state residence, named Mnchen toward the bottom.
The black can, with very light shield impression to saucer base the yellow-ground can incised I /impressed shield/P and three lines above the saucer incised I/impressed shield and L over an I, with three lines to the side, and the cup with the view of Munich marked I shield V over I, with two lines.
The two cans 2 1/2 H. and 2 3/4 H., the saucers, 5 1/2 Diameter. The tallest, 3 3/4 H., 5 Diameter the saucer.
By descent from the Kaumheimer family, Stuttgart, Germany.
The commemorative: shallow light nicks to footrim of can and saucer, the handle slightly wonky, all as manufactured minor wear and rubbing to gold and enamels. The yellow ground: shallow, light nicks to footrim of both can and saucer, very minor wear and rubbing. The third example, handle broken off, reglued, and regilt, long y-crack to base of cup. gilding wear to cup and saucers.

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