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Lot 136

A Frankenthal plate from the gold-striped service for Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, circa 1770

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

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A Frankenthal plate from the gold-striped service for Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, circa 1770

Finely painted with a flower spray and further scattered flowers reserved on a gilt-striped ground, the rim surmounted by the monogram "CP" [Christian Pfalzgraf] moulded with a gilt-edged laurel leaf border, 25.5cm across, crowned CT monogram and VIII in underglaze-blue, gilder's mark Au, impressed I/o

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Herzog [Duke] Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722-75) was raised in the French court and was closely allied with Louis XV. In 1767, he awarded the privilege for the manufactory in his Palatinate to Johann Michael Stahl, the founder of the Pfalz-Zweibrücken manufactory. See B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan Das Geschirr (2014), cat. no. 36, for two tureens and two plates from the same service; the author notes (p. 108), that the decor is among the most gracious and decorative of the Frankenthal manufactory.

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