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A Berlin plate from the dessert service for Friedrich Franz (II) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, circa 1837-44 image 1
A Berlin plate from the dessert service for Friedrich Franz (II) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, circa 1837-44 image 2
The Twinight Collection
Lot 89*

A Berlin plate from the dessert service for Friedrich Franz (II) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, circa 1837-44

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Berlin plate from the dessert service for Friedrich Franz (II) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, circa 1837-44

Perlenteller, the centre with a young girl wearing a yellow dress, standing on the banks of a river pulling a figure out of the water with pink ribbon within a canted rectangular panel reserved on a burnished gilt ground, the edge of the well moulded with formal borders and bands of pearls, the rim with a ribbon and floral band on a burnished gilt ground and edged with pearls, 25.5cm diam., sceptre mark and KPM in underglaze-blue, orb and KPM stencilled in iron-red, painter's mark I in blue, impressed 22 and incised III (very minor wear)

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Provenance:
The Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's New York, 19-20 October 2011, lot 37;
The Twinight Collection

From a service given in stages each Christmas between 1837 and 1848 by the kings of Prussia to Friedrich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (from 1842 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II); firstly by his grandfather (and godfather), Friedrich Wilhelm III, and after 1840, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The service eventually consisted of 50 plates, which were painted with views of Berlin and Potsdam as well as copies of well-known paintings. A similar service was given in 1842 by Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia to Crown Prince Maximillian of Bavaria (now in the Residenz in Munich). See S. Wittwer, Rafinesse & Eleganz (2007), no. 149, for two other plates from the service in the Twinight Collection.

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