A Berlin KPM porcelain dessert plate from the wedding service for Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Antikglatt model with beaded rim. The well decorated with a depiction of Strasbourg minster, labelled in black on the reverse. Blue sceptre mark, red dash below, t in black, pressnummer 25, incised with three dots. D 24.7 cm.
1823.
On occasion of the marriage of his daughter Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798 – 1816) to the Russian grand prince and later Tsar Nicholas I on 19th July 1817, Friedrich Wilhelm III ordered a large service from the Royal Berlin manufactory. The service was delivered in 1823 and comprised 100 dinner plates painted with vedutas, flowers, faux micromosaics and hunting scenes, 30 soup plates with bouquets and 30 dessert plates with views of churches. All pieces were richly gilded. This depiction of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg is presumably based on the engraving by François Jacques Oberthür (1793-1863) published in 1819 by Guttermann.
Provenance
Former collection of Dr. Witte, Rostock, auctioned by Rudolph Lepke Berlin on 21st/22nd October 1930. In the collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen since 2000.
Literature
Illus. in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 136. Cf. Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 104. For more on the production dates see p. 330 (SPSG, KPM-Archiv, Land Berlin, Pret 2, entry from 17th April 1823, p. 96 - 99).