A Meissen porcelain platter from the service with the green mosaic rim - image-1
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A Meissen porcelain platter from the service with the green mosaic rim - image-1A Meissen porcelain platter from the service with the green mosaic rim - image-2

Lot 396 Dα

A Meissen porcelain platter from the service with the green mosaic rim

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 18:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 2.976 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain platter from the service with the green mosaic rim

In "preußisch-musikalischem Dessin", with bouquet and butterfly decor. Blue crossed swords mark. A restored breakage near the handle, ground down firing supports. D 52.2 cm.
1761 / 62.

This service is generally referred to as the Zieten service. We now know that Frederick II ordered at least six table services from Meissen during the Seven Years' War. One was intended as a present for General Lieutenant Hans Joachim von Zieten. As in the Möllendorf service, the relief decor with musical instruments and a globe forms the principal motif of a service commissioned and designed for intellectual addressees. The decorative motif was praised by contemporaries as the most significant Meissen design since the Swan Service.

Literature

For the service now kept in the Porzellansammlung des Landes Berlin cf.: Wittwer in Keramos 208 / 2010, illus. 36.
For further information cf.: Nabrdalik, Dubium initium sapientia, in Keramos 201 / 2008.