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

Department Director

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Provenance:
A private collection of Fürstenberg porcelain, sold Sotheby's London, 12 September 2000, lot 65
From the service made for the founder in 1747 of the Fürstenberg manufactory, Duke (Herzog) Carl I of Braunschweig (1713-80). The initials on the rim may also refers to his consort, Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, the sister of Frederick the Great. Other plates from the service are illustrated by S. Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan (1965), vol. II, ills. 83-87; by Beatrix Freifrau von Wolf Metternich, Weißes Gold aus Fürstenberg (1988), no. 25; and by Michael Unterberg, Frühes Fürstenberger Porzellan (2010), cat. nos. 115 and 116, ills. 212-215. The painting on the plates has been attributed to Johann Friedrich von Metsch or Johann Friedrich Pascha Weitsch and the model to Simon Feilner.