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A rare set of six Nymphenburg topographical plates from an armorial service presented to the Ottoman Turkish Court, dated 1847 image 1

Lot 191

A rare set of six Nymphenburg topographical plates from an armorial service presented to the Ottoman Turkish Court, dated 1847

Fine European Ceramics Including the Heinrich Rothberger Collection

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A rare set of six Nymphenburg topographical plates from an armorial service presented to the Ottoman Turkish Court, dated 1847

Each superbly painted with a topographical view depicting Bavarian views, titled, signed and dated 1847 in black on the reverse, within a burnished gilt band, the rims reserved with a band of gilt foliage and scrollwork against the burgundy red ground, a gilt-edged circular reserve at the top and bottom painted with the crescent and star, and the royal arms of Bavaria, respectively, inscribed:
Landshut/ gemalt von/ v. Marx./ München/ 1847
Pinakothek in München/ gemalt von/ Schramm/ München./ 1847
Scene aus dem Uebungslager/ bei Augsburg/ gemalt von/ Ferdinand le Feubure./ München/ 1847
Chiemsee/ gemalt von/ Ferdinand le Feubure./ München/ 1847
Obersee bei Berchtesgaden/ gemalt von/ Ferdinand le Feubure./ München/ 1847.
Schloß Seefeld/ gemalt von/ Ferdinand le Feubure./ München/ 1847., 23.7cm diam., impressed shield marks, incised 3 and 5

Footnotes

The precise origins of this topographical service, of which only nine other plates are recorded, remain to be discovered, though it seems almost certain to have been a gift from the Bavarian court to the Ottoman Turkish Sultan or one of his representatives. The service was likely presented in an attempt to repair a diplomatic dispute between Greece - whose monarch since independence was King Otto, the second son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria - and the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The dispute in early 1847 brought the two countries to the brink of conflict, which also threatened to draw in the European powers. The Bavarian government advised Greece to make concessions, which it did following the intervention of Austria in December 1847. The gift of these plates seems likely to have been an attempt by the Bavarian government to repair relations with the Ottoman Turks; see K. Hantschmann, Nymphenburger Porzellan 1797 bis 1857 (1996), cat. no. 279, for a discussion of the service and a list of the other nine plates, eight of which are in Bavarian museums. See also pp. 446, 448 and 454 for details of the painters, Ferdinand Le Feubure, Karl von Marx and Gottlieb Schramm.

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