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Lot 40 D α

A Meissen porcelain dinner plate from the "Schwerin-Service"

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
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A Meissen porcelain dinner plate from the "Schwerin-Service"

"Französisches Dessin" model with purple scale pattern, bouquets around the rim and a large bunch of wildflowers in the centre. Blue crossed swords mark with dot, dreher's number 56. Minor wear to the gilding. D 23.2 cm.
1763.

In mid-November 1762, King Frederick II ordered a dinner service with a "purple mosaic rim, garlands and blossoms" from the Meissen manufactory, after he had ordered a dessert service with an openwork basketweave border and forget-me-not flowers in relief two months earlier. The King gave both services to his chief equerry Count Friedrich Albert von Schwerin (1717 - 1789) as a gift for his 69th birthday on 24th January 1781.

Literature

See Wittwer, "hat der König von Preußen die schleunige Verferttigung verschiedener Bestellungen ernstlich begehret" - Friedrich der Große und das Meißener Porzellan, Keramos 208 / 2010, p. 62 ff., illus. 54, for a plate from Charlottenburg palace.
Two further plates from this service in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 113, sold in Lempertz Berlin auction 1169 on 24th April 2021, lot 6.