A Meissen porcelain plate from the dinner service made for Field Marshal General Burchard Christoph von Münnich
Sulkowski ozier model. Decorated in the centre with a large coat-of-arms with the chain of the Russian Order of St. Andrew above a cartouche inscribed with the motto OBSEQUIO ET CADORE (In obedience and integrity). Blue crossed swords mark, impressed B in teh basal ring. With two restored rim chips at 7 and 8 o'clock (slightly yellowed). D 23.2 cm.
1738, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
In his 1910 "Festschrift", Karl Berling dates the service for Count Burchard Christoph von Münnich (1683 - 1767) to 1738. It is obvious that the decor and model are 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 Tsarina Elizabeth I, where he fell from grace in 1741 and was exiled to Siberia, but also under Tsar Peter III of Russia, where, rehabilitated, he held the office of Field Marshal General and Director over all the ports of Russia.
Provenance
Private collection, Palatinate.
Literature
Cf. an identical plate in the Staatlichen Porzellansammlung Dresden (inv. no. PE 1428).
Cf. also a plate and an octagonal dish formerly in the Hoffmeister collection (cat. Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, p. 526 f, no. 346 f.)