Footnotes

• Provenance:
  E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück
  
  This dish forms part of the service commissioned in June 1778 by Frederick the Great for Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later Tsar Paul I (1796-1801). Paul Petrovich was the son of Catherine the Great, whose grandfather was Prince Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, and Peter III, whose father was Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Following the death of his first wife in 1773, Grand Duke Paul Petrovich married Sophie-Dorothea von Württemberg in 1776, at which time she changed her name to Maria Feodorovna. The celebration of their engagement in Berlin was an important occasion that led to heightened productivity at the Berlin factory, which was visited by the Royal guests (Köllmann 1986, p.129). On that occasion, Frederick presented the Grand Duke with a large Berlin table service commemorating the victories of the Russian-Turkish war.
  
  For a discussion of the armorial service, see Von Sanssouci nach Europa (1994), pp. 127ff. A charger from this service was sold in these Rooms, 9 December 2009, lot 168.
  

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Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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