Götzendorf-Grabowski-Service
The Götzendorf Grabowski Service is a porcelain service from the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory Meissen .
history
The Götzendorf-Grabowski-Service was created in 1742 as a gift from the Saxon Elector and Polish King August III. for the Prince-Bishop of Warmia, Adam Stanislaus Grabowski from the Pomeranian noble family v. Götzendorf-Grabowski .
The Götzendorf-Grabowski service occupies a special position simply because only a few pieces have survived. As a result, it was always overshadowed by more famous service. 24 plates from the service were part of Gustav von Klemperer's extensive porcelain collection, which was described in a detailed catalog published in 1928.
The collection was confiscated by the National Socialist State in 1938. On the night of February 13, 1945, a truck with four boxes of well-packed pieces from the Klemperer Collection was ready to be taken away in Dresden's courtyard to save the pieces from the Red Army, but was hit by an English bomb. As a result, many pieces of porcelain are only preserved today as pieces that have been reassembled.
layout
Adam Stanislaus Grabowski's personal coat of arms appears on the edge of the plates : a square shield with the family coat of arms of those von Götzendorf-Grabowski and the family v. Kleist (family of his mother Barbara von Kleist). The heraldic cartouche is framed by the Polish Order of the White Eagle, awarded to him in 1740, behind it the bishop's staff and sword.
Characteristic of the service is a decor with local garden flowers and insects, which goes back to templates in the flower book by Magdalena Rosina Funck . The template is now in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.
literature
- Claudia Bodinek: The Götzendorf-Grabowski-Service and its images. In: Keramos. Issue 219, p. 21.
Web links
- Plate from a service for Adam Stanislaus Götzendorf-Grabowski on the website of the Dresden State Art Collections
- Matthias Thibaut: Bonhams is auctioning broken porcelain. In: Handelsblatt online from December 18, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Claudia Bodinek: The Götzendorf-Grabowski-Service and its templates. In: Keramos. Issue 219, p. 21.
- ↑ Ludwig Schnorr v. Carolsfeld : porcelain collection Gustav von Klemperer. Dresden 1928.
- ↑ Matthias Thibaut: Bonhams auctioned porcelain fragments. In: Handelsblatt online from December 18, 2010.