A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin - image-1
A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin - image-2
A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin - image-1A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin - image-2

Lot 144 Dα

A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin

Auction 1105 - overview Berlin
21.04.2018, 11:00 - Prussia I
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 6.820 € (incl. premium)

A pair of Berlin and Potsdam silver platters made for the Counts of Schwerin

Monogrammed "MS" beneath comital crowns to the underside. Also with a faintly visible earlier aristocratic monogram and silver weights. D 35.5 cm, total weight 1,645g.
One platter with maker's marks of Johann Gottlieb Kohlheim, the other with Potsdam hallmarks, ca. 1800.

Provenance

Formerly in the possession of Count Maximilian v. Schwerin (1804 - 72).

Literature

Cf. an oval platter by Kohlheim with a Princely monogram in the silver cabinet of Berlin Palace, mentioned in: Scheffler, Berliner Goldschmiede, Berlin 1968, p. 271.