A BERLIN PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL "NEUZIERAT CHARGER", gilt and painted in Eisenrot, from the dinner service ordered by Frederick the Great mit mythologischen Historien, the centre depicting a landscape vignette with a scantily clad Venus surrounded by winged cherubs in a wooded landscape, the shaped borders in slight relief with trellised bands and flowersprays, marked with an underglaze blue sceptre (some gilt rubbed; restored), 1783

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A BERLIN PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL "NEUZIERAT CHARGER", gilt and painted in Eisenrot, from the dinner service ordered by Frederick the Great mit mythologischen Historien, the centre depicting a landscape vignette with a scantily clad Venus surrounded by winged cherubs in a wooded landscape, the shaped borders in slight relief with trellised bands and flowersprays, marked with an underglaze blue sceptre (some gilt rubbed; restored), 1783
31.5 cm diam.

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cf. E. Köllmann and M. Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan ill. 293a-d for chargers from the service with mythologische Historien

Frederick the Great of Prussia ordered this service for Schloss Charlottenburg in 1783.

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