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Teller aus einer Nachlieferung zum Service St. Andreas Orden - sog. Andreas Service. Meissen, um 1750. - Plate from a subsequent delivery of the St. Andrew Order service - so-called Andreas Service Meissen, around 1750, porcelain, white, glazed. Polychrome and gold painted. Gold rim. Blue sword mark under the glaze. 1st choice. H. 4 cm, d. 24,8 cm. - Provenance: According to oral information from the consignor, the plate comes from the former possession of Catherine the Great's servant. Family property since then. - Literature Cf. the plate in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, inv. no. P.E. 7700, in Pietsch (ed.), Meissen für die Zaren. Porcelain as a means of Saxon-Russian politics in the 18th century, Munich 2004, cat. Kasakievich, Natalia: Origin and history of the Andreas service. In: Keramos, 149, 1995, pp.47-52. relief pattern: Gotzkowsky. Model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695 - 1749). -- Russian double-headed eagle under the Tsar's crown at the top of the flag, the St. Andrew's cross at the bottom, German flowers in the center and on the sides. -- In 1744, the Russian Tsarina Elisabeth I received one of the manufactory's most extensive services, the so-called ”Andreas Service”, from Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a sign of the strengthening of the Saxon-Russian alliance. It was a gift on the occasion of the marriage of her nephew, the Russian heir to the throne, Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich (later Peter III), to Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst (later Catherine the Great). It consisted of around 440 pieces. The service was subsequently kept at the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg and later in the Hermitage, where 145 pieces can still be found. Large parts of the service were auctioned off in 1928 at the Berlin art auction house Rudolph Lepke on behalf of the Soviet Union's commercial agency. -- The Order of St. Andrew the First-Called was founded by Tsar Peter I in 1698 and awarded for outstanding military achievements, but was also a house order of the Romanov dynasty. As the dessert course was served at the annual banquets of the Order, the court occasionally had to reorder more. The subsequent deliveries by the Meissen manufactory and the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory of St. Petersburg in the later 18th century and also after the abolition of the St. Andrew's Day holiday in 1801 are known and published. In contrast to the early service of 1744, which was decorated with the finest woodcut flowers, the later pieces show simple flower painting. - Condition: glaze rubbed on the ridges - gold rim slightly rubbed - scattered fly ash spots and scattered dots of color.