CIRCA 1760, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND PRESSNUMMERN 61

Details

A pair of Meissen plates of Schwerin Service type
Circa 1760, blue crossed swords marks and Pressnummern 61
The centres painted with loose bouquets and scattered flower-sprays, within three moulded shaped gilt-scroll-bordered panels with pink scale-pattern edges bordered with yellow and buff-coloured scrolls suspending garlands, alternating with three moulded pink-edged feuille-de-choux lobes (slight rubbing to enamels and gilt)
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 3rd November 1997, lot 274.

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Lot Essay

Count Schwerin (1684-1756) was the principal advisor and tactician for Frederick the Great in the First and Second Silesian Wars and during the Seven Years War. A large part of the original table service, probably a gift from the grateful King to his loyal general, was sold in these Rooms on the 11th March 1996, lot 186.

For a discussion of the French-influenced design of these plates, see Gunter Reinheckel, 'Plastiche Decorationsformen im Meissner Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts', Keramos, July/October 1968, no. 41/42, pp.103 et. seq.

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