A Berlin KPM porcelain butter dish from the dinner service with the order of Henry the Lion
"Schiffchen" model, octagonal. 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 sceptre mark with KPM, red imperial orb mark, L. in black, pressnummer 29. H 4.9, W 30.4, D 13 cm.
Fired pre-1844, decorated in 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
This model pub. in cat. Orden auf königlichem Porzellan. Das Tafelservice vom Eisernen Helm und die Feldherrenporzellane der königlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin, Eichenzell 2013, cat. no. 3.13.
See Römer, Regierung und Volk im 19. Jahrhundert, Braunschweig 1979, no. 354 ff. for further items from this service.