A Meissen porcelain dish with native birds and insects from a dinner service for King Friedrich II - image-1

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A Meissen porcelain dish with native birds and insects from a dinner service for King Friedrich II

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 400 € - 600 €
Result: 567 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain dish with native birds and insects from a dinner service for King Friedrich II

Neu-Brandenstein model. Painted with an oriole and a red-backed shrike (?) surrounded by insects. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's no. 36. A rim chip at 5 o'clock, scratches. Diameter 26.3 cm.
Around 1760.

Both Charlottenburg Palace and the porcelain collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts contain smaller collections of items from this service, some of which are from the holdings of the former Hohenzollern Museum.