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A Meissen dessert plate from the 'Schwerin Service' circa 1755
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Find your local specialistA Meissen dessert plate from the 'Schwerin Service'
Moulded with a basketwork ground radiating from a central gilt-edged cartouche painted with fruit and flowers, the rim with four pierced panels of flowers enclosed by gilt-edged rocailles against pierced trelliswork with moulded flower-heads, the edge of the rim pierced within a formal gilt border, 23.8cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (in exceptionally good condition)
Footnotes
Provenance:
According to family tradition, presented to General Field Marshall Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757) by Frederick the Great;
Thence by descent;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 16 October 1990, lot 76 (part);
Acquired in 1991
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 221
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757) began his military career in the army of the Netherlands States-General. He also served in Mecklenburg and Imperial service, and, from 1720, in Prussian service as a Major-General. Frederick the Great promoted him in 1740 to General Field Marshall and raised him to the rank of Graf (Count). He was appointed commander of the 3rd army corps in 1756, and fell outside Prague on 6th May 1757, holding a regimental banner in his hand in an heroic attempt to rally his troops. In 1759, Frederick the Great commissioned a marble statue of Schwerin, which is now in the Bode Museum, Berlin (Giersberg et al. 1994, p. 46).
