A Berlin K.P.M Tondo, circa 1815

modelled by Leonhard Posch, depicting King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Luise of Prussia and their family, modelled in white in relief upon a dark blue ground, within a gilt porcelain frame moulded with a band of oak leaves, pierced for hanging,

There is some scattered faint wear to the gilding on the frame. Backing not removed for examining. For all sales which take place on or after 1 February 2015, please note that the rate of buyer's premium for each lot (charged as a percentage of the hammer price achieved for that lot) has been revised and shall be calculated at the thresholds set out below: Buyer's premium is 25% of the hammer price up to and including £100,000; Buyer's premium is 20% of the hammer price on any amount in excess of £100, 000 up to and including £1,800,000; Buyer's premium is 12% of the hammer price on any amount in excess of £1,800,000. As stated above, the revised thresholds are effective as of 1 February 2015.
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Leonhard Posch of Tyrol, Austria (1750 - 1831) was a modeller, medallist and sculptor famous for his extremely fine relief portraits. He initially trained as an apprentice under the sculptor Johann Baptist Hagenauer in Salzburg. After completing his studies he worked in Vienna, then in 1803 he moved to Hamburg, and in 1804 to Berlin, where he remained until 1810, before moving to Paris. In Paris Posch stayed until Napoleon's fall in 1814. In the summer of 1814 he decided to return to Berlin and remained there until his death in 1831.

A comparable example of this form is in the collection of Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, acquired for the collection in 1988 by Die Freunde Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten.