Early Chocolate Solitaire

This is a really nice hot chocolate solitaire made by KPM around 1765. Quite an early set by them! KPM used no painters mark like the red orb yet during this period thus you only have the blue scepter and impressed marks most of the time. The set is in the Neuzierat style of the time with all pieces having handpainted fruit, vegetable and floral scenes and even some nuts and berries as well as a light yellow trim to the rim with some relief design to the porcelain and a gold trim to the edge. Nice floral finials to the lids and the tray has a really nice shape to it! Nice handle shapes with leaves coming out of them where they attach to the main bodies. And the amazing faces under the spouts! Sadly the set has some damage - the tray was broken in three peices and reglued with small chips missing and two spots of damage to the very edge due to issues in the making. The largest pot has had the handle with a piece of the side broken out and is missing a chip in the top rim and some missing pieces around the break though no holes are present. The floral finial has minor chipping. Three really tiny chips on the lid rim. The smaller pot has an old repair to the broken off handle which is hidden pretty well. Three leaves chipped on the floral finial and a very tiny chip to the lid underside rim. A bit of the paint has flaked off the fruit scene. The sugar dish is in great condition with two very tiny chips to the edges and two leaves chipped on the flower finial. The cup and saucer is in excellent condition with wear to the gilding. The cup is 1.625 inches tall and 2.625 inches in diameter. The saucer is 1 inch tall and 4.75 inches in diameter. All pieces are marked with the underglaze blue scepter as well as an incised l - most of the marks are in unusual places only used during the early times - the inside of the sugar dish and the sides of the pots where the handle and main body meets. The scepter marks are their earliest ones some of them being the fat and short type. The sugar dish is 3 inches tall and 3.5 inches in diameter. The larger pot is 5 inches tall and 3 inches in diameter. The smaller pot is 3.75 inches tall and 2.75 inches in diameter and the tray is 15 inches wide by 10.25 inches deep. Please email me for more information or other pictures.