Set of 12 Berlin KPM porcelain dinner plates from a dinner service for Glienicke Palace
Porzellan, pompejiroter Fond, Vergoldung. Model no. 1054, decorated with gilt palmettes. Blue sceptre marks, nine plates with imperial eagle mark, one with owner's mark "K.P.C." in black, three with red imperial orb mark, impressed 22 and 32, various painter's marks. One plate with chips to the basal ring, four with retouched gilding. D c. 24.5 cm.
Around 1823 - 32.
Glienicke Palace is situated in a somewhat elevated position on a promontory on the Havel River northeast of Potsdam. A magnificent view opens up onto the western stretches of the riverbank over the converging watercourses. This may have been precisely what motivated Prince Karl to have a Neoclassical building designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel erected on the property, which he purchased in 1824, and which blends harmoniously into the landscape. The Prussian prince lived on the estate until his death in 1883.
We know of only a few pieces from the first production phase of this service, which was created to match the starkly Classicist character of the palace's interior. One plate is now housed in the collection of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne (inv. no. E 3946), another in the Belvedere Charlottenburg.
Literature
Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan, Cologne 1980, no. 252.
Cf. Köllmann/Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, vol. II, Munich 1987, illus. 322.