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Lot 131

A rare Fürstenberg dessert plate from the service for Duke Carl I of Braunschweig, circa 1757-58

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

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A rare Fürstenberg dessert plate from the service for Duke Carl I of Braunschweig, circa 1757-58

Painted with a European landscape scene in puce camaieu, the gilt wavy rim moulded with four rocaille cartouches enclosing gilt letters C and H surrounded by colourful moulded scrollwork and shells and pierced panels of gilt trellis pattern, 23cm diam., F mark in underglaze-blue (very minor wear to gilt rim)

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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.

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