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Lot Essay
The source of the decoration of this plate was the series of Lithographs entitled 'Equipages' after Franz Kruger's watercolours. For the watercolour from which this subject is derived and a similar plate, see Ilse Baer et. al., Along the Royal Road Berlin and Potsdam in KPM Porcelain and Painting 1815-1848 (New York, 1993), p. 139, no. 31 and p. 140, no. 32.
The artist Franz Krüger, known as 'Horses', was a favourite painter of the royal family and chosen by Prince Carl to produce a series of watercolours depicting his coaches, of which he was an avid collector, at a variety of places between Berlin and Potsdam. For an example of a plate with a sleigh see Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, p. 462, fig. 314. The 'Stanhope' was a two-wheeled vehicle for the use of a single occupant.
The artist Franz Krüger, known as 'Horses', was a favourite painter of the royal family and chosen by Prince Carl to produce a series of watercolours depicting his coaches, of which he was an avid collector, at a variety of places between Berlin and Potsdam. For an example of a plate with a sleigh see Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, p. 462, fig. 314. The 'Stanhope' was a two-wheeled vehicle for the use of a single occupant.