A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain plates from the dinner service with the order of Henry the Lion - image-1

Lot 194 Dα

A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain plates from the dinner service with the order of Henry the Lion

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.500 € - 1.800 €
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A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain plates from the dinner service with the order of Henry the Lion

Model no. 1113. The border decorated with the collar of ten lions holding the coat-of-arms alternating with the central shield with a crowned W for Duke Wilhelm, inscribed with the motto IMMOTA FIDES (unshakable loyalty). The centre with the star of the Order within a silver aureola. Blue imperial eagle mark with KPM, red imperial orb mark, painter's marks in red, impressed marks. With minor wear. D 25 cm.
Around 1846.

An etagère from this dinner service was consigned by the descendants of Friedrich Schulz to Lempertz Berlin auction 1105 on 21st April 2018, as lot 266.

According to credible family lore, Duke Wilhelm of Brunswick (1806 - 84) presented his Minister of State, Friedrich Schulz (1795 - 1864), who had been appointed to take up his reign, with a magnificently decorated dinner service for 24 persons in around 1846, presumably in connection with him receiving the Grand Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion.

Literature

See Römer, Regierung und Volk im 19. Jahrhundert, Braunschweig 1979, no. 354 ff. for further items from this service.