A Unique Late 19th Century Berlin K.P.M. Porcelain Plaque Entitled “The Bridegroom Health – The Betrothal”
Item # CC1094
A Unique Late 19th Century Berlin K.P.M. Porcelain Plaque Entitled "The Bridegroom Health – The Betrothal"
Signed ‘TK’ for Thomas Koenig
After the painting by Otto Erdmann
Signed to the lower right hand corner with the initials ‘TK’ for Thomas Koenig. The reverse with impressed ‘KPM’ mark beneath a sceptre to the lower right and the center inscribed with the registered mark of the Munich porcelain painter Th. Koenig, in the form of an armorial crest with a putti supporting a banner inscribed ‘Munchen’, an artists palette and a shield bearing the initials ‘TK’.
Thomas Koenig, was a renowned porcelain artist with a studio in Munich, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The original oil painting this plaque is based on is entitled ‘The Betrothal’ or ‘Bound for Life’ and was painted in 1883, by the German painter Otto Erdmann (1834-1905).
Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann (born Leipzig 1834 – died Duusseldorf 1905) was a German Realist painter, heavily influenced by Impressionism and famous for his fine interior scenes with figures from the eighteenth century. Works by Erdmann are displayed in the museum of Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Leipzig.
Details:
Height – 12.5 inches / 32cm
Width – 15 inches / 38cm
Height – 18 inches / 47cm
Width – 21 inches / 53cm
