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Magnificent large mantel clock by KPM Berlin with allegorical figures White porcelain with enamel painting. Footed, cranked rectangular base. The clock case with fluted pilaster strips, profiled arched pediment and canopy roof, crowned by a laced acanthus leaf finial. Flanked by a pair of antique-style figures leaning towards the center. A young lady in a long, fitted gown with a floral headdress, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, probably Victoria as the personification of victory. Opposite, a male nude with a scarf and headdress in the rear view, holding a sword in his hand, probably Bellum, representing war. Circumferential relief decoration of laurel and acanthus leaves, rosettes and leaf wave bands in cookie porcelain as well as fine-line, stylized, ochre-coloured enamel decoration of meander, arch, acanthus and palmette friezes as well as floral bands. Brass-framed, glazed enamel dial with Arabic numerals. Movement plate marked "Lenzkirch A.G.U 1 Million" with no. 581999. Striking mechanism on bell. Model designed by Hans Latt (born 1859 in Breslau). Model book entry December 1899, probably designed by Max Vopel. Model no. 6278. year letter (1902). Dial cracked. Minimally rest.; sceptre mark. H. 35 cm. 87 cm x 15 cm. The sculptor Hans Latt attended the Breslau art school between 1878 and 1882. This was followed by a two-year stay in Rome. He worked in Berlin from 1886 and created designs for decorative architectural sculptures, sculptures for funerary monuments, portrait busts and reliefs, among other things. According to Köllmann, the figure compositions are reminiscent of the famous Medici tombs in the New Sacristy in the Florentine church of San Lorenzo. To complement the clock, Latt designed two candelabra with male and female caryatids as side plates (models 6330 and 6351). I. von Treskow, Jugendstil-Porzellane, KPM Berlin, p. 288, no. 6278 and p. 259; Bublitz, Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, 1913; Köllmann, vol. I, p. 209; Thieme-Becker, vol. 22, p. 426. A splendid large early 20th C. mantel clock with allegorical figures modelled by H. Latt. Dial little cracked. Minor restored. Sceptre mark. KPM-Berlin. Early 20th C.
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Magnificent large mantel clock by KPM Berlin with allegorical figures White porcelain with enamel painting. Footed, cranked rectangular base. The clock case with fluted pilaster strips, profiled arched pediment and canopy roof, crowned by a laced acanthus leaf finial. Flanked by a pair of antique-style figures leaning towards the center. A young lady in a long, fitted gown with a floral headdress, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, probably Victoria as the personification of victory. Opposite, a male nude with a scarf and headdress in the rear view, holding a sword in his hand, probably Bellum, representing war. Circumferential relief decoration of laurel and acanthus leaves, rosettes and leaf wave bands in cookie porcelain as well as fine-line, stylized, ochre-coloured enamel decoration of meander, arch, acanthus and palmette friezes as well as floral bands. Brass-framed, glazed enamel dial with Arabic numerals. Movement plate marked "Lenzkirch A.G.U 1 Million" with no. 581999. Striking mechanism on bell. Model designed by Hans Latt (born 1859 in Breslau). Model book entry December 1899, probably designed by Max Vopel. Model no. 6278. year letter (1902). Dial cracked. Minimally rest.; sceptre mark. H. 35 cm. 87 cm x 15 cm. The sculptor Hans Latt attended the Breslau art school between 1878 and 1882. This was followed by a two-year stay in Rome. He worked in Berlin from 1886 and created designs for decorative architectural sculptures, sculptures for funerary monuments, portrait busts and reliefs, among other things. According to Köllmann, the figure compositions are reminiscent of the famous Medici tombs in the New Sacristy in the Florentine church of San Lorenzo. To complement the clock, Latt designed two candelabra with male and female caryatids as side plates (models 6330 and 6351). I. von Treskow, Jugendstil-Porzellane, KPM Berlin, p. 288, no. 6278 and p. 259; Bublitz, Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, 1913; Köllmann, vol. I, p. 209; Thieme-Becker, vol. 22, p. 426. A splendid large early 20th C. mantel clock with allegorical figures modelled by H. Latt. Dial little cracked. Minor restored. Sceptre mark. KPM-Berlin. Early 20th C.
