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Lot 116

A Meissen dessert plate from the Schwerin service, circa 1755

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen dessert plate from the Schwerin service, circa 1755

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 puce flower-heads, the edge of the rim pierced within a formal gilt border, 24cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue

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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.

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