A Berlin KPM porcelain salad dish made as a trial piece for the Duke of Wellington service - image-1

Lot 70 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain salad dish made as a trial piece for the Duke of Wellington service

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain salad dish made as a trial piece for the Duke of Wellington service

Unidentified round model. The well painted with a small coat-of-arms surrounded by the belt of the Order of the Garter above a bracket supported by two lions. The borders with fine Neoclassical tendril décor. Blue sceptre mark. The entire rim restored. H 3.4, D 18 cm.
C. 1817/18.

The central coat-of-arms used on this trial proof was eventually only used for the dinner plates and roasting dishes in the Wellington service, where it was surrounded by a wreath of oak and laurel branches tied with yellow ribbons on a pale pink ground. The salad bowls in the final service were decorated instead with a helmet motif in the centre. The coat-of-arms was copied onto the porcelain using an outline drawing, an example of which is published by Winfried and Ilse Baer in their catalogue of the contents of Apsley House (p. 22, fig. 13).

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

For the final version of the salad bowls cf.: Baer/Baer, Das Tafelservice der KPM für den Herzog von Wellington, Berlin 1988, p. 100, no. 81.