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A Berlin Royal armorial dessert-plate from the Grand Duke Paul service
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A Berlin Royal armorial dessert-plate from the Grand Duke Paul service

CIRCA 1778, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE

細節
A Berlin Royal armorial dessert-plate from the Grand Duke Paul service
Circa 1778, underglaze blue sceptre
The centre painted with the coat-of arms, a double-headed crowned eagle holding two oval shields within a pierced basketweave border enriched in gilding and hexafoil gilt line rim (some slight flaking to gilt rim)
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) wide
出版
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich, 1987), Vol. II, p. 449, fig. 291a.
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

Paul Petrovich (1754-1801), was the son of Tsar Peter III and Catherine The Great. His first wife, Wilhelmina Natalia, died in 1776 and in the same year he married Sophia Maria, daughter of Friedrich Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. The two shields on the plate do not represent either of these marriages, they represent the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp; the right-hand shield bears the arms of the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp. Catherine The Great's maternal grandfather was Christian Augustus, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and her husband's father was Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Paul succeeded his mother in 1796 becoming Tsar Paul I. An unstable dipsomaniac, he dug up his murdered father's remains and placed them on the throne so that he would not have to succeed his mother directly. His mental health caused him to be considered a potential loose canon, and in 1801 he was strangled with his son's consent.