A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the wedding service for Princess Luise
A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the wedding service for Princess Luise
Model no. 1054. The border decorated with a wreath of flowers and foliage of the lachenalia genus. The gilt lip surrounding gilt etched palmette border. Blue sceptre mark, brown imperial eagle mark, pressnummer 25, incised III, black painter's mark Roman numeral I. D 24.4 cm.
1825.
To celebrate her marriage to Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands (1797 – 1881), Friedrich Wilhelm III's youngest daughter, Luise of Prussia (1770 – 1840), received an extensive dinner and dessert service. It was decorated in the fashion of the time with topographically accurate views of the kingdom of Prussia, fine faux cameo designs and opulent floral garlands. The manufactory account book describes the décor as follows, “A dinner and dessert service comprising 50 place settings painted in colours with various full garlands of flowers: a pale ground colour along the border, below it a broad band of gold and a gold border alongside gold border no. 3”.
Provenance
Sothebys New York, 1964, lot 6 (one of two plates). Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.
Literature
Illus. in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 138. For more on this service see Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, p. 332 ff. (SPSG, KPM-Archiv, Land Berlin, Pret 2, Eintrag vom 9. Juli 1825, p. 121 ff.) Cf. also cat. Königliche Eleganz Preußische Pracht, 250 Jahre Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin KPM, 1763-2013, Düsseldorf 2013, no. 32.
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A Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plate from the wedding service for Princess Luise
Model no. 1054. The border decorated with a wreath of flowers and foliage of the lachenalia genus. The gilt lip surrounding gilt etched palmette border. Blue sceptre mark, brown imperial eagle mark, pressnummer 25, incised III, black painter's mark Roman numeral I. D 24.4 cm.
1825.
To celebrate her marriage to Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands (1797 – 1881), Friedrich Wilhelm III's youngest daughter, Luise of Prussia (1770 – 1840), received an extensive dinner and dessert service. It was decorated in the fashion of the time with topographically accurate views of the kingdom of Prussia, fine faux cameo designs and opulent floral garlands. The manufactory account book describes the décor as follows, “A dinner and dessert service comprising 50 place settings painted in colours with various full garlands of flowers: a pale ground colour along the border, below it a broad band of gold and a gold border alongside gold border no. 3”.
Provenance
Sothebys New York, 1964, lot 6 (one of two plates). Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.
Literature
Illus. in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 138. For more on this service see Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, p. 332 ff. (SPSG, KPM-Archiv, Land Berlin, Pret 2, Eintrag vom 9. Juli 1825, p. 121 ff.) Cf. also cat. Königliche Eleganz Preußische Pracht, 250 Jahre Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin KPM, 1763-2013, Düsseldorf 2013, no. 32.
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