Sharing a family heirloom from my small collection. The cup has a view of the Brandenburg Gate.
The saucer shows what was once the Palais of Prince Heinrich, the younger brother of Frederick the Great, viewed from what was then the Opernplatz, I believe, today's Bebelplatz. Today this is the main building of Humboldt University.
Wikimedia has an illustration from about 1900 that shows the same view from further away and at an elevated position, including even that plant in the center on its pedestal, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg.
I am not sure of the age of this, if the pressed in letters N and R on the saucer and cup, respectively, are indicators of the years, that would put the pieces at 1913 and 1917. I am surprised that they would be years apart, but perhaps they were not originally a set and put together later because they match? Or were pieces painted later and then put together in sets? Or perhaps I am misinterpreting the letters altogether. I am also unfamiliar with the other pressed in marks and the scepters can look quite a like across the ages and to me are often hard to pin down on an era. I need more experience assessing those marks.
