A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with a Prussian infantryman - image-1

Lot 66 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with a Prussian infantryman

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate with a Prussian infantryman

Model no. 1084. The well decorated with a depiction of a soldier of the Kaiser Franz Grenadier Regiment against a panoramic landscape with a windmill and a military encampment. Blue sceptre mark, brown imperial eagle mark, blue astrological symbol of Venus, impressed 32, incised III, blue owner's mark "G.v.L." beneath a comital crown, presumably of Lottum or Lynar. D 24.4 cm.
1823 - 32.

In the text accompanying the 2007 exhibition "Refinement and Elegance", Eva Wollschläger emphasises the attention to detail in the depiction of the uniforms, which must have played an important role for the recipient of these pieces. Services like these were presented as gifts by the King to high ranking military officials. Frederick William III had a great love of uniforms, which was typical for the era, but went far beyond the usual Prussian patriotism. In the inventories for his private rooms at the Neues Pavillion in Schlosspark Charlottenburg, which was the King's summer residence from 1824 - 1825, we find mention of "200 display plates from the Imperial porcelain manufactory in St. Petersburg in gold frames as wall decoration" all with Russian military motifs (op. cit. p. 387).

Provenance

Sotheby´s Amsterdam, 20th February 2003, lot 1002.

Literature

Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 129e.

Exhibitions

Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königiche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Prrivatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009