Lot 70
70
A MEISSEN SHAPED-HEXAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE PODEWILS SERVICE

CIRCA 1741-1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 21, GILDER'S P.

Details
A MEISSEN SHAPED-HEXAGONAL ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE PODEWILS SERVICE
Circa 1741-1742, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 21, gilder's P.
Painted and gilt with the coat-of-arms of Graf Podewils to the rim above scattered sprays of Oriental flowers, the rim moulded with six gilt shells
10n. (25.4cm.) diam.
Provenance
Ole Olsens Collection
Literature
Hermann Schmitz, Ole Olsens Art Collections, II, Munich, p. 34, no. 1463, plates 55, 56 (incorrectly described as the Podbielski Service)

Lot Essay

The present plate is from a service made for Heinrich Graf von Podewils (1695-1760) minister to Frederick the Great and Knight of the Prussian Order of the Eagle, probably given to him for his role in allying Saxony and Bavaria with Prussia during the first Silesian war. The majority of the service was formerly in the Ole Olsen Collection. Examples have more recently been sold by Christie's Geneva, including a plate from the estate of Andreina Torre, 16 November 1992, lot 136. Cf. Rainer Rckert, Meissner Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 495, Tafel 127