A MEISSEN PORCELAIN ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE SEYDEWITZ SERVICE

This dish is from the service made for August Friedrich von Seydewitz (1695-1775), who was from an ancient Saxon noble family. He was created baron in 1731, and then Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1743. As the arms on the service are those of a Count, this provides a terminus post quem for the decoration of the service. For an illustration of a plate from this service see Rainer Rückert, Meissen Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 123, no. 485.