A Berlin KPM porcelain plate from the dinner service for General Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué - image-1

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A Berlin KPM porcelain plate from the dinner service for General Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
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A Berlin KPM porcelain plate from the dinner service for General Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué

Model no. 189. Dinner plate decorated with finely painted flowers. Blue sceptre mark. A chip to the basal ring. D 26.4 cm.
1766.

Born in The Hague, Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1689 - 1774) was a close confidant of King Frederick II since his time as crown prince. He accompanied the king until his death in 1774, with only a brief interruption when de la Motte Fouqué was in Danish service. Lempertz has already auctioned off several pieces from the dinner service that Frederick II ordered for his friend as one of the first gifts from his porcelain manufactory in December 1766.

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin.

Literature

For this order see the archival tables in Lenz, Berliner Porzellan. Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 - 1786, vol. 1, Berlin 1913, p. 15 and fig. 82.

See also Nabrdalik, Das Berliner Tafelservice für Friedrich Ehrenreich von Ramin - Zu einem "Tafel-Service vom radirten Dessein, für 24 couverts" mit dem Dekor "natürliche Vögel und blau angespitzter Rand", ein Geschenk Friedrichs des Großen an den Gouverneur von Berlin, in: Keramos 221/2013, p. 117 ff., fig. 6 f.