A Frankenthal porcelain dinner service with fruit and flower motifs
Scalloped design with blue and gold ribbons with black outlines. Round tureen with rocaille handles and original lid, eight plates, an oval platter, four oval salts and two small gravy ladles. Blue conjoined CT mark with electoral crown, 82 in blue, dreher's mark. Minor localised wear to the glaze. H tureen 25, W platter 32 cm.
Fired in 1782, decorated around 1786.
This model was probably developed for the dinner service of the Bernese envoy and director of the salt trade Johannes von Jenner. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky describes the 56 items from this service now owned by the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in the city of Mannheim in detail. The service has the same fruit and flower decoration, but the borders between the blue and gold ribbons are much more lavishly decorated and include the coat-of-arms of the recipient of this gift from the Palatinate Court. The service was fired between 1781 and 1783 and painted in 1783/84.
The service presented here was fired at the same time, but was painted shortly afterwards in a simpler version that was more in keeping with the spirit of the 1780s.
Provenance
Formerly Baron von Büsing d'Orville, Schloss Zinneberg.
Literature
Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan. Bd. 3: Das Geschirr, Munich 2014, cat. no. 61, for an oval platter, a plate and references to further published examples of the service in collections in Bamberg, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf and Washington.