A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the service for the Berliner Stadtschloss - image-1

Lot 88 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the service for the Berliner Stadtschloss

Auction 1105 - overview Berlin
21.04.2018, 11:00 - Prussia I
Estimate: 800 € - 1.200 €
Result: 1.984 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the service for the Berliner Stadtschloss

Model no. 189, a naturalistic flower bouquet with a buttercup to the centre, reserves on relief decor painted with three smaller bouquets and insects. With a gilt leaf border. Blue sceptre mark, impressed mark O3. D 25.2 cm.
Presumably pre-1773.

Provenance

Purchased 1972 from Eberhard Giese, Cologne.
Collection of Prof. Dr. Gisela Zick.

Literature

The archival tables published by Lenz (vol. 1, reprint, p. 15 f) list two entries for the Berlin service. The first being an order placed on 31.1. and 3.2.1768 for a “Berlin dinner service of etched design, for 36 persons” (Acta Silberkammer vol. I, 3.2.1768). The second entry is a dispatch on 23.3.1773: “Dinner service of etched design (72 dinner plates etc.) painted with naturalistic flowers and insects and with a gilt leaf border”. The phrase “of etched design” (“radirtes Dessein”) probably refers to a design by Frederick II himself.
A dessert plate from the service in cat.: Berliner Porzellan, Münster 2006, no. 60, a dinner plate under no. 78.
Cf. Lenz, 2. vol., Reprint, pl. 90.