From the KPM Berlin collection. Jeweled porcelain. Round form "Königsglatt with Palm Durchbruch". Cobalt blue background. In the slightly recessed mirror, a framed antique-style medallion with a male profile portrait wearing a helmet in grisaille painting on platinum. Surrounding the portrait is a rich, finely detailed relief gold decoration of foliage and scrollwork, with two sphinxes sitting on consoles, adorned with melted colored enamel pearls and powdered gold background. Painter monogram LCF, Ludwig Carl Frenzel (?). Unknown restoration; scepter and painter's mark. Diameter 24.5 cm. The ornamental border, designed in the Renaissance style, exemplifies the application of the innovative technique of jeweled painting, i.e. the relief-like application of various colored enamel pearls that give the impression of precious gemstones. See Keramos No. 221, 2013, p. 86; No. 209, 2010, p. 98; Catalogue Bröhan Museum, Vol. V/I, No. 85 ff. A splendid early 20th-century plate with polychrome enamel decoration. Insignificantly restored. Scepter and painter's mark. KPM Berlin. Circa 1900.
