A Berlin KPM porcelain sauce boat from a subsequent order for a dinner service presented on occasion of the wedding of Frederick Ludwig Karl of Prussia and Princess Frederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Model no. 631. Finely painted with Continental birds on fruit branches and insects. The upper rim with a gilt border picked out in puce. Blue sceptre mark, red imperial orb mark, purple painter's mark of the planetary symbol for Venus, pressnummer 40, incised //. H 8.1, W 24 cm.
After 1832.
Like Crown Prince Frederick William and his bride, Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, their younger siblings Prince Louis and Friederike also received a dinner and dessert service as a gift from the bride's father King Frederick William II on the occasion of their marriage - two days after that of the Crown Prince and Princess - in December 1793. The model chosen was "Englischglatt", the décor corresponds to that of the famous "Antikglatt" service for Peacock Island delivered in 1795. Information on the model, décor and scope of the service, which was designed for 36 table settings, can be found listed in detail in the "Conto-Buch Sr. Majestät des Königs".
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland.
Literature
Cf. entry from 16th December 1793 in the Conto-Buch of Sr. Majestät des Königs, 1791-1796, KPM-Archiv Potsdam, p. 30.
For a dinner and dessert service "with colourful naturalistic birds on fruit branches and small insects, together with gold and purple edging a la grecque No 63" for Pfaueninsel Palace, see cat. Friedrich Wilhelm II. und die Künste. Preußens Weg zum Klassizismus, Berlin 1997, cat. V.47.