Lot: 2332
Date of sale: 12. Tue Nov 2024
A soup plate from a royal dinner
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A soup plate from a royal dinner service, KPM Berlin, c. 1836, 1st choice, painter’s mark from 1832, antique smooth form, colored overglaze decoration. Model 1054, rim with a border of alternating small optical squares (actually trapezoids) of gothicized rosettes and gold leaf ornaments between two blue stripes on a Pompeii red ground, edged with blue stripes with gold accents, cavette partly gilt, Ø 22 cm, Provenance Berlin private collection, The bowl is part of a dinner service that King Frederick William III. to his niece Elisabeth of Prussia (1815 – 1885) on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Karl of Hesse-Darmstadt (1809 – 1877) on October 22, 1836. Large parts of the service were auctioned on July 6, 1925 at Fischer, Lucerne as ”Property of former ruling princes and their families”, some pieces from a Hessian private collection were auctioned again at Lempertz Berlin in 2014 and 2016
Category: Porcelain Part I
