166 - KPM Berlin Art Nouveau Vase with Butterfly Relief and Arms of the Corps Rhenania Berlin, 1922

KPM Berlin Art Nouveau Vase with Butterfly Relief and Arms of the Corps Rhenania Berlin, 1922 Porcelain, Schleifstrich (grinding mark, second quality), polychrome painted, gold-decorated, glazed, tall Art Nouveau vase by KPM Berlin with handles on both sides in stylised leaf form, probably after leaves of the calla or other arum family plants, below the mouth rim a relief butterfly motif with gold outlines, white body with gilt lip rim, on the body the coloured full coat of arms of the Corps Rhenania in the Deutscher Senioren-Convent, shield divided per fess, the upper half divided per pale, with green-black bend, rampant lion and below a colour field in red, white and blue, crest with green eagle wings and red-white ornamentation, above a ribbon with “Rhenania sei's Panier!” and circle (Zirkel), below a ribbon with motto and foundation date “5.2. Einer für Alle, Alle für Einen 1910”, on the reverse a hand-painted dedication “Corps i. D.S.C. Rhenania-Berlin s/l. Rüdesheim R! 3. Hochzeitstage am 9. Sept. 1922.”, on the base the underglaze blue sceptre mark and impressed number “7201”, used, good condition commensurate with age with rubbing, D. 16 cm, H. 35.5 cm. 360-degree photo available on our website. The Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM) passed into the ownership of Frederick the Great on 19 September 1763, who gave it this name. Its company emblem is the cobalt-blue sceptre from the Electoral Brandenburg coat of arms, which is applied after the first firing and before glazing. After the end of the monarchy in 1918 the manufactory became the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin; the KPM emblem and the sceptre mark were retained.