A PAIR OF BERLIN PORCELAIN OVAL CENTRE-DISHES FROM A JAGD-SERVICE ON A PAIR OF BERLIN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR ORMOLU-MOUNTED STANDS

CIRCA 1817-23, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND OVERGLAZE RED DASH MARKS, INCISED DREHER'S MARKS AND NUMERALS, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS CHARLES X AND STAMPED VI AND VIII

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A PAIR OF BERLIN PORCELAIN OVAL CENTRE-DISHES FROM A JAGD-SERVICE ON A PAIR OF BERLIN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR ORMOLU-MOUNTED STANDS
Circa 1817-23, underglaze blue sceptre and overglaze red dash marks, incised Dreher's marks and numerals, the ormolu mounts Charles X and stamped VI and VIII
The dishes with wells painted with subjects probably taken from engravings by Johann Elias Ridinger within rectangular cartouches, the first with a white stag and doe in flight through woodland, the second with gamebirds including bustards, pheasant, grouse, guinea-fowl, duck and pigeons reserved on grounds gilt with arabesques, within differing gilt-ground palmette, fleur-de-lys and foliate scroll borders; the rectangular cream-ground stands with gilt recumbent lions to the corners and each with a four-branch gilt-metal support with anthemia terminals, the base rims enriched in gilt with stiff leaf borders, one restored chip to edge of one stand, some rubbing to enamels and gilt, two flanges lacking to metal supports, the dishes and stands from two as yet unidentified services and united in the early 19th Century
The dishes 18in. (46cm.) wide (4)

拍品专文

These dishes and stands, with their distinctive lioness supports, are closely related to those from the'Prussian Service', which was commissioned by King William III from the Royal Berlin manufactory circa 1817-19 as a gift to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (d. 1852) for Apsley House, London. Indeed, the etched gilt borders to the dishes closely resemble those of the Duke's service, and the stands (which are strictly speaking tureen-stands) are the same model as those used for the Duke's tureen-stands (W. and I. Baer, The Prussian Service, The Duke of Wellington's Berlin Dinner-Service, Exhibition Catalogue, 1988, p. 99, pl. 9, for the stands).