A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-1
A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-2
A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-3
A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-1A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-2A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service - image-3

Lot 24 Dα

A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service

Auction 1127 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)

A set of two Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the 2nd Potsdam service

With trellis and rocaille decor over pale green ground and a central bouquet in the typical early polychromy. Blue sceptre mark, impressed mark. Chips to foot rims. D 25.7 and 26.3 cm.
1767.

Frederick II ordered the 2nd Potsdam service for the Neue Palais in Potsdam and commissioned a further, identical service as a present for his brother-in-law Margrave Karl Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1736-1806).
In contrast to the 1st Potsdam service, the second so-called green table service was paid for from the royal treasury. The invoice for this payment provides us with a terminus ante quem which confirms the date of delivery following the production of the service to be 3rd July 1767. All pieces from this service had already left royal ownership by the time Georg Lenz's two volume work was published in 1913.

Provenance

West German private collection.