
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
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Head of Department, Director

Department Director

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Provenance:
According to family tradition, presented to General Field Marshall Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757) by Frederick the Great
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). See Samuel Wittwer, Friedrich der Große und das Meißener Porzellan, in Keramos 208 (2010), p. 62, for a short discussion of the service.
Another dessert plate from the service was sold in these rooms as part of the Hoffmeister Collection Part 1, 25 November 2009, lot 100, and another in the Britzke Collection Part II, 22 June 2017, lot 123.