A Meissen porcelain plate from the dinner service made for General Field Marshall Burchard Christoph von Münnich
The large coat-of-arms in the centre surrounded by the collar of the Russian Order of Saint Andrew above a cartouche inscribed with the motto “OBSEQUIO ET CADORE” (in obedience and honesty). Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark E of Johann Gottfried Eckholt sen. A small restored rim chip at 4 o'clock. Slight glaze wear in some areas, a short firing crack at 1 o'clock. D 23.3 cm.
1738, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
In his “Festschrift” publication of 1910, Karl Berling dates the service produced for Count Burchard Christoph von Münnich (1683 - 1767) to 1738. It is obvious that the décor and model are closely related to the service for Count Sulkowski, created between 1735 and 1737.
Münnich served as Field Marshal General not only at the courts of Augustus the Strong and the Russian Tzarina Elizabeth I, where he fell from grace in 1741 and was exiled to Siberia, but also under Tzar Peter III of Russia, under whom he was rehabilitated and granted the office of Field Marshal General and Director of all the ports of Russia.
Provenance
Röbbig, Munich.
Private collection, Palatinate.
Literature
Cf. an identical plate in the Staatlichen Porzellansammlung Dresden (inv. no.: PE 1428).
Cf. A plate and an octagonal dish formerly housed in the Hoffmeister collection (cat. Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, p. 526 f, no. 346 f.).
Another plate from this service auctioned by Lempertz Cologne in auction 1159, Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen on 13th November 2020, lot 648.