Bidspirit auction | 19th Century KPM Style 'High

19th Century KPM Style 'High Priestess & Priestess' Plate - Inscribed and stamped on the back.    Dimensions: Approx. 9 1/2” Diameter   Condition: Minor wear and markings, consistent with the natural age of the porcelain. Surface scratches to the gilding.    About: The Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin was acquired in 1763 by Frederick the Great, who bought the failing Gotzkowsky manufactory and gave it the cobalt sceptre mark it still uses. The nineteenth-century painted plaque is a collecting category of its own: KPM ran a department that copied paintings onto flat porcelain slabs, a single plaque taking twelve to fifteen separate firings because each enamel color needed its own temperature. They offered academic painting quality on an unfading, glass-hard support, and were bought as accessible luxury pictures. One nuance matters — KPM sold blank plaques carrying its own impressed marks to outside decorating studios, and several German factories used the letters KPM legitimately, Krister of Waldenburg among them, which is why a piece not verified to the Berlin factory is catalogued in the KPM style.