A MEISSEN PLATE FROM THE MÖLLENDORFF SERVICE, the centre painted in orange-red camaieu with a loose bouquet within a border of moulded martial, musical and astronomical trophies within moulded gilt scroll cartouches within a shaped orange-red border gilt with scale-pattern and a gilt dentil rim (slight scratching to glaze and slight rubbing), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 36, circa 1761

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A MEISSEN PLATE FROM THE MÖLLENDORFF SERVICE, the centre painted in orange-red camaieu with a loose bouquet within a border of moulded martial, musical and astronomical trophies within moulded gilt scroll cartouches within a shaped orange-red border gilt with scale-pattern and a gilt dentil rim (slight scratching to glaze and slight rubbing), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 36, circa 1761
26cm. wide

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 55

Lot Essay

According to family tradition this service, for which an invoice amounting to 9,412 thalers and dated April 7, 1761 survives, was a gift from Frederick the Great to the Prussian Field Marshall, General Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorff

Cf. Honey (1934), p. 125, pl. LIV and a similar example from the Weitnauer Collection, sold Christie's Geneva, 11 November 1985, lot 320

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