A heavy armorial plate from the extensive dinner service of the Lehmann family of textile manufacturers from Guben/Lower Lusatia Smooth, elegant mirror, merging into a matching curved rim with fluting. Engraved coat of arms of the Lehmann family on the rim. Engraved inv. no. "122" as well as weight and owner's inscription "Ernst C. Lehmann Guben" on the underside. Fig. 14 plumb bob, proof mark, maker's mark. Weight approx. 660 g. D. 26 cm. The Lehmann family was one of the leading industrialists in Guben in the 19th century and achieved considerable prosperity. In 1917, the family business was taken over in the ninth generation by Ernst C. Lehmann, who was later immortalized on this plate. He was a retired cavalry captain and later lord of Bärenklau Castle in the district of Spree-Neisse in Brandenburg. Cf. Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 15, 21, 27 a, p. 434, no. 1849, MZ 381. See Jonas, Gold und Silber für den König, p. 91 (on the shape of the plate). A German silver plate from the property of a manufacturing family from Lower Lusatia. Owner's inscription. Standard mark 14 loth, assay and maker's mark. German. Berlin. Court goldsmith Johann Georg Hossauer. 1854-1860.