Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin KPM - Dinner plate from the 2nd Potsdam dinner service
Porcelain, colored overglaze decoration, gilding. Model 189, relief decoration. The six spandrels on the rim underlaid in sea green, the rocaille reliefs and trellises gilded. In the center a bouquet in early polychrome. Blue sceptre mark, impressed mark. Little wear. D 26.5 cm.
Berlin, KPM, 1767/68.
Frederick II ordered the dinner service from which this plate originates for the New Palace in Potsdam in 1767. A first tranche was presented to the king in 1767. The repeat order with the "addition of 36 envelopes" was placed on January 31, 1768 and delivered on October 27 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 coffers. The invoice provides us with a terminus ante quem, which proves the date of delivery after production, July 3, 1767. By 1913, when Georg Lenz's two-volume work went to press, there were no longer any pieces of this service in royal possession.
Provenance
From German aristocratic ownership, deceased. Lempertz Berlin auction 1047 on May 2, 2015, lot 34.
Berlin private collection.
Literature
On the order and delivery, see Lenz, Berliner Porzellan. Die Manufaktur Friedrichs des Grossen 1763 - 1786, 1st vol., Berlin 1913, p. 15.
See also ibid. Plate 19, fig. 81.
See also cat. Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin-München 2010, ill. 40, p. 61, the loans from the Freunde der Preußischen Schlösser und Gärten e.V.
Estim. 2,000 - 3,000 EUR