A Meissen porcelain plate from the dinner service for Count Heinrich von Podewils - image-1

Lot 1370 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate from the dinner service for Count Heinrich von Podewils

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 945 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain plate from the dinner service for Count Heinrich von Podewils

Moulded plate with six scallop shell reliefs around the rim. Painted in the centre with the Prussian eagle holding the Podewils family coat-of-arms above the Order of the Black Eagle. With scattered Oriental flowers throughout the centre and border. Blue crossed swords mark, P. in gold, dreher's number 21. Wear to the glaze, a restored rim chip at 4 o'clock. D 25.5 cm.
Around 1741/42, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein, 1741.

Prussian State Minister Heinrich Graf von Podewils (1696 - 1760), who served as ambassador in Dresden in 1742, received an extensive dinner service as a gift from King August III in thanks for his diplomatic services during the First Silesian War. The service reused the designs developed in the same year for the hunting service of Elector Clemens August of Bavaria (1700 - 1761).

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

See Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, no. 495.
Other items from the service were formerly housed in the Hoffmeister Collection (see Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister. Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. II, Hamburg 1999, no. 353 ff.)