416 - Friedrich Reinhard Schrödel

Friedrich Reinhard Schrödel Twelve silver plates from the Dresden Court Round, scalloped plates; the broad borders with moulded rims. The undersides engraved with the monogram “FA” for elector Frederick Augustus III and inventory numbers 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41 and 42, together with heavily worn weight inscriptions. Diameter 26 cm; total weight 7,883 g. Dresden, marks of Friedrich Reinhard Schrödel, 1773. On page 418 of the court inventory, we learn that in 1774 a total of “One Hundred and Twenty Dinner Plates” were recorded in the Silver Chamber, including our twelve examples, with their engraved inventory numbers and weight specifications. An amusing detail can be found among the disposals recorded in a separate column: “One Table Plate No. 6, which was lost during the Carnival at the 2nd Ladies’ Table in 1786, according to the disposal certificate dated 1 March 1787.” Provenance From a private collection, Lower Saxony. Literature For more on the Dresden court silver see Arnold, Dresdner Hofsilber des 18. Jahrhunderts, Publikation der Kulturstiftung der Länder und der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Berlin/Dresden 1994, p. 30 ff., and ibid. p. 51 for Schrödel's maker's mark.