Pommel swords, from 1850-1918, 1st choice, underneath old inventory numbers.

Polychrome painted, gold decorated.

55 parts. Form "Altbrandenstein" and "Neubrandenstein". On the flag in each case the coat of arms of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, in the mirror and on the flag bouquets of flowers and scattered flowers. 12 dinner plates, 12 soup plates, 2 bowls (Ø 24 cm), 2 vegetable plates (Ø 30.5 and 36 cm), 2 different oval plates (L 35 cm), 12 demitasse cups and 13 saucers. 1 bowl with minimal edge chip, chip on the standing ring of 1 bowl, 1 plate with abrasion on the underside, minimal gold abrasion on the oval plates.

The service is a special production for the princely house of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. The relief decoration "Alt-Brandenstein" was first made around 1740 at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory for Friedrich August Brandenstein, who was promoted to head kitchen master in 1739. In 1744, the modeller Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1695-1749) revised the relief, giving the bars an s-shaped curve and adapting the shape, now called "Neu-Brandenstein", to the taste of the Rococo period. Meissen porcelain was also in use at the court of the princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt until the middle of the 18th century, but then - probably for reasons of cost - Johann Friedrich von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767) had the service with the Old Brandenburgstein relief made by the Aeltesten Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur. The decorations of this court dinner service and the present service owned by Princess Anna-Luise of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt are thereby identical: in a reserve piece, the coat of arms of the princely house as well as floral bouquets, scattered flowers and gold borders.

Literature : Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg-Rudolstadt (1999), p. 200; Walcha (1973), p. 482f./No. 127; Sterba (1988), p. 124.

Provenance : Estate of Princess Anna-Luise of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt / stored in Heidecksburg Castle after 1918, expropriated there in the course of the princely expropriation retroactively to the year 1945, subsequently kept in Heidecksburg and returned to the heirs in Rudolstadt in 2008 on the basis of § 5 Compensation Act.