A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace - image-1
A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace - image-2
A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace - image-1A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace - image-2

Lot 187 Dα

A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM porcelain plate, presumably from a dinner service for Charlottenburg Palace

Model no. 1054. The border decorated with gilt palmettes. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark, I. in red, conjoined owner's monogram FW (for Frederick William IV) in purple. A ground down area to the basal ring. D 24.6 cm.
After 1832.

This service was previously always attributed to the court in Glienicke, but fits considerably better with the reconstructed design of Charlottenhof Palace in Potsdam. The same palmette motifs can be found above the red doors of the garden hall. The later King Frederick William IV received the palace as crown prince in Christmas 1825 and commissioned Karl Friedrich Schinkel with the reconstruction, which he began in 1826 on an astonishingly small budget. Today, the palace and its park, designed by Sello and Lenné, are once again a unique ensemble, an incunabulum of late classicism in Prussia.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan, Cologne 1980, cat. no. 252.
Cf. Köllmann/Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, ill. volume, Munich 1987, illus. 322.
For more on the design of the garden room in Charlottenhof see cat. Karl Friedrich Schinkel Möbel und Interieur, Munich-Berlin 2002, N.31.