A Meissen porcelain platter from a dinner service with floral decor
A Meissen porcelain platter from a dinner service with floral decor
Gotzkowsky's raised flower model. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's no. 54. W 29.6 cm.
After 1741, model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein.
In his book about the manufactory, which the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky actually founded himself, Wilfried Baer quotes from Eberlein's workshop report from February 1741: "a bowl mould No. 1, which is gadrooned, and on its base a wreath of flowers, no less on the rim 4 shields together with 4 flower bouquets, the outer rim pierced, and all very painstakingly worked." It was not until June of the same year, when he was working on bowl no. 2, that the name "Mr Gotzkowsky" appeared as the person who had ordered the service. The model created for him was very successful, as the Russian court ordered the "Elisabeth Service" in 1741 and the "Andreas Service" in 1744, both with Gotzkowsky's relief decoration.
Literature
For this model see Baer/Baer/Grosskopf-Knaak, Von Gotzkowsky zur KPM. Aus der Frühzeit des friderizianischen Porzellans, Berlin 1986, p. 49.
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A Meissen porcelain platter from a dinner service with floral decor
Gotzkowsky's raised flower model. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's no. 54. W 29.6 cm.
After 1741, model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein.
In his book about the manufactory, which the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky actually founded himself, Wilfried Baer quotes from Eberlein's workshop report from February 1741: "a bowl mould No. 1, which is gadrooned, and on its base a wreath of flowers, no less on the rim 4 shields together with 4 flower bouquets, the outer rim pierced, and all very painstakingly worked." It was not until June of the same year, when he was working on bowl no. 2, that the name "Mr Gotzkowsky" appeared as the person who had ordered the service. The model created for him was very successful, as the Russian court ordered the "Elisabeth Service" in 1741 and the "Andreas Service" in 1744, both with Gotzkowsky's relief decoration.
Literature
For this model see Baer/Baer/Grosskopf-Knaak, Von Gotzkowsky zur KPM. Aus der Frühzeit des friderizianischen Porzellans, Berlin 1986, p. 49.
