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A Berlin Royal hexafoil plate from Frederick the Great's Grünen Tafelservice for the Neue Palais

CIRCA 1765-8, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, IMPRESSED OA3

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A Berlin Royal hexafoil plate from Frederick the Great's Grünen Tafelservice for the Neue Palais
Circa 1765-8, underglaze blue sceptre mark, impressed oA3
The border with three panels of green foliage meandering through vertical gilt line trellis alternating with three panels with floral garlands, divided at the intersection of each lobe by six foliage scroll-moulded turquoise panels extending spirally towards the central bouquet, gilt line and feuilles-de-choux rim (chipping to footrim)

Provenance

Rohloff Collection no. 1978

Literature

Winfried Baer, Ilse Baer and Suzanne Grosskopf-Knaack, op. cit. (Berlin 1986), no. 260.

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Lot Essay

Cf.Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. II, fig. 260, and Erich Köllmann, op. cit. (Brunswick 1966), Vol.II, 27a. This service was delivered in two stages in 1765 and 1768.

For an oval two-handled dish see Georg Lenz, op. cit. (n.d.), Vol. I, pl. 19, fig. 81.

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