A Meissen porcelain cloche from a dinner service made for Frederick II - image-1

Lot 743 Dα

A Meissen porcelain cloche from a dinner service made for Frederick II

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain cloche from a dinner service made for Frederick II

With Dulong relief and fruit decor. Blue crossed swords mark to the inner rim. Restored over a crack, minor firing cracks. D 24.6 cm.
C. 1760.

The Prussian king Frederick the Great commissioned several services in early 1760. Alongside the exceptional service commissioned as a gift for Jean Baptiste de Boyer, the Marquis d'Argens, he also commissioned the production of an extensive service with "Dulong reliefs, naturalistic fruit [and] gilt edging [...]" for use in his court, to which this cloche belongs.

Provenance

Hessian Collection.

Literature

Cf. Wittwer, Friedrich der Große und das Meißener Porzellan, in: Keramos 208/2010, p. 17 - 81, p. 49 ff.