CIRCA 1800, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 33 TO SAUCER

细节

A Berlin cabinet-cup and saucer
Circa 1800, underglaze blue sceptre marks, Pressnummer 33 to saucer
The cup of flared form and with brown snake handle with gilt scales, the body with a broad continuous blue-ground band reserved with gilt-edged pale-pink panels with Cupid fashioning arrows and at various pursuits, the saucer similarly decorated with panels radiating from a central medallion with Cupid triumphant in his chariot, below broad gilt borders embossed with bands of scroll and dot ornament

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拍品专文

The graphic source for this cup and saucer is the series of prints by P.W. Tomkins, The Birth and Triumph of Cupid (London, 1795) developed from the original designs by Lady Dashwood, which chart Cupid's progress from birth to final triumph. Fifteen of the twenty-six plates have been adapted for the decoration of this lot, although they do not appear in sequential order. The centre of the saucer, however, does depict the culmination of Cupid's efforts with an image derived from the final plate in the series; Cupid Triumphant in his chariot. The engraving reproduced above is a detail of the 20th plate, Betting on Hope Strikes the Heart, where Cupid ascends 'The Hill of Difficulty' riding on the anchor of Hope in order to reach his target (a heart perched at the top of the hill) more effectively. The shape of this cup appears to have no name.