A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the service for General Kleist von Nollendorf - image-1

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A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the service for General Kleist von Nollendorf

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
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A pair of Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from the service for General Kleist von Nollendorf

Model no. 1113. Decorated with the Iron Cross in the centres, the borders with laurel wreaths entwined by black and pale red ribbons with the General's comital coat-of-arms on a cream ground above. Blue sceptre mark, black painter's mark I, one piece with pressnummer 34. D 23.2 cm.
1817.

Friedrich von Kleist (1762-1823) was elevated to the rank of hereditary count with the surname "von Nollendorf" by King Friedrich Wilhelm III on 3rd June 1814 in recognition of his services at the Battle of Kulm and Nollendorf. He sent the design for his comital coat of arms to the manufactory director Rosenstiel at KPM in January 1816, whereupon production of his service began. Rosenstiel was able to announce the imminent completion and despatch of the service to the Ministry as early as October 1817.

Literature

Cf. cat. Orden auf königlichem Porzellan. Das Tafelservice vom Eisernen Helm und die Feldherrenporzellane der königlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin, Eichenzell 2013, fig. 20 f.

Cf. a further dinner plate and a compote bowl from the same service offered in Lempertz Berlin auction 1169 on 24 April 2021, lot 74 f.