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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
A Berlin plate from the dessert service for Friedrich Franz (II) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, circa 1837-44 image 3
The Twinight Collection
Lot 90*

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 well painted with a scene of a barefooted maiden crossing a pond on a stepping stone, within a canted rectangular panel reserved on the burnished gilt ground within moulded formal borders and bands of pearls, the rim with a stylised ribbon and floral border on a burnished gilt ground, edged with a moulded pearl border, 25.5cm diam., sceptre mark and KPM in underglaze-blue, orb and KPM stencilled in iron-red, painter's mark I in brown, impressed 22 and incised III (very minor wear)

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Provenance:
The Twinight Collection (purchased from Alan Hicklin in 2012)

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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