Lot number 1 - Auction 161
FEINER TELLER AUS DEM ANDREAS-SERVICE

A FINE PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE ST. ANDREW SERVICE German, Meissen, Johann Friedrich Eberlein (design), 1744-1745 With Gotzkowsky relief decor, painted, decorated with a black double-headed eagle and an Andrew cross, partially gilded. Underglaze blue swords mark, stamp. The St. Andrew's Service, comprising over 4,000 pieces, was manufactured around 1744-45 in the Meissen porcelain factory and presented by August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, to the Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on the occasion of the wedding of her nephew and heir to the throne, Peter Fyodorovich, to Sophie Auguste Friederike of Anhalt-Zerbst, the future Empress Catherine II. On the bottom part. rest. Diam. 24 cm.