Lot 637 Dα

In his book about the manufactory, which the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky actually founded himself, Wilfried Baer quotes from Eberlein's workshop report from February 1741: "a bowl mould No. 1, which is gadrooned, and on its base a wreath of flowers, no less on the rim 4 shields together with 4 flower bouquets, the outer rim pierced, and all very painstakingly worked." It was not until June of the same year, when he was working on bowl no. 2, that the name "Mr Gotzkowsky" appeared as the person who had ordered the service. The model created for him was very successful, as the Russian court ordered the "Elisabeth Service" in 1741 and the "Andreas Service" in 1744, both with Gotzkowsky's relief decoration.