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Lot 160

A pair of Berlin soup plates from the service for General de la Motte Fouqué, circa 1766

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,200 - £1,700

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A pair of Berlin soup plates from the service for General de la Motte Fouqué, circa 1766

Reliefzierart, the rim moulded with shaped panels of flowers growing through a frame within rococo cartouches with scrollwork spirals to the centre, painted with a flower sprig in the centre and scattered blooms, the wavy rim with gilt dash border, 25cm diam., sceptre mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 3 and I (minor wear to gilt rims) (2)

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Provenance:
Part of a table service given by Frederick the Great to General August Heinrich de la Motte Fouqué in December 1766

Other pieces from the service are illustrated and discussed by D. Nabrdalik, Das Berliner Tafelservice für Friedrich Ehrenreich von Ramin [...], in Keramos 221 (2013), p. 120, ills. 6 and 7.

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