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