A BERLIN (KPM) PORCELAIN 'GRAND DUKE OF COURLAND' PATTERN PART DINNER-SERVICE, LATE 18TH CENTURY, BLUE SCEPTRE AND DASH MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 31 AND INCISED NUMERALS

A BERLIN (KPM) PORCELAIN 'GRAND DUKE OF COURLAND' PATTERN PART DINNER-SERVICE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, BLUE SCEPTRE AND DASH MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 31 AND INCISED NUMERALS
Decorated with floral bouquets and insects, within gilt swag and green-ground borders, comprising: two ice-pails, covers and two liners, two oval two-handled soup-tureens, covers and stands, two vegetable-tureens, covers and stands, two footed bowls, eight oval serving-platters, in sizes, four two-handled double-lipped sauceboats and five stands, two spoons, four octagonal twin-handled baskets, four octagonal chestnut-baskets, six chamfered triangular dishes, four chamfered square dishes, one smaller, three circular serving-dishes, in sizes, twelve dinner-plates, eighteen dinner-plates with pierced borders, four octagonal dessert-plates with pierced borders and twenty-four chocolate-cups and covers
18 5/8 in. (48 cm.) wide, the soup-tureen stands

Provenance

By family tradition, given to Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, KG, PC (1762-1834) when Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (1812-1827) by Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia (1770-1840), and by descent in the collection of the Earls Bathurst.