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Lot 70

A Meissen dessert plate from the 'Schwerin' Service, circa 1762-63

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen dessert plate from the 'Schwerin' Service, circa 1762-63

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

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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