A Berlin KPM porcelain plate from the 2nd Potsdam dinner service

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate from the 2nd Potsdam dinner service

Model no. 189 dinner plate. The six spandrels of the rim picked out in seaform green, the rocaille and trelliswork mouldings gilded. Painted in the centre with a bouquet in early polychromy. Blue sceptre mark, impressed marks. With minor wear. D 26.5 cm.
1767/68.

Frederick II ordered the dinner service, to which this plate belongs, for the Neue Palais in Potsdam in 1767. A first installment was handed over to the king in 1767. The follow-up order with the "addition of 36 place settings" was placed on 31st January 1768 and delivered on 27th October of the same year.

In contrast to the first Potsdam service, the second, the so-called Green Table service, was paid for from the royal treasury. With the invoice, we have a terminus ante quem, which, following production, proves the date of delivery to be 3rd July 1767. Already in 1913, at the time that Georg Lenz's two-volume work on Berlin porcelain was printed, there were no more pieces of this service remaining in royal possession.

Provenance

From German aristocratic ownership, sold in Lempertz Berlin auction 1047 on 2nd May 2015, lot 34.
Private collection, Berlin.

Literature

For more on this order and the delivery see Lenz, Berliner Porzellan. Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 - 1786, vol. 1, Berlin 1913, p. 15.

See also ibid. plate 19, fig. 81.

See also cat. Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin-Munich 2010, ill. 40, p. 61, for the loans from the Freunde der Preußischen Schlösser und Gärten e.V.