Excellent work was done in their best periods by several other German factories. Berlin under the patronage of Frederick the Great was successful in combining gracefulness of form with rich painted and gilt decoration, as for instance in the beautiful rococo service with openwork borders made for the Neue Palais at Potsdam. The works of the Elector Palatine at Frankenthal rivalled Meissen in the rich diversity of its figure-modelling, while at Ansbach the factory established by the Margrave Christian in 1758 excelled in landscape work in the manner of Claude, painted en camaïeu in crimson within elaborate gilt borders of feathery rococo scrollwork.
The royal Danish factory at Copenhagen may be mentioned as another instance in which the help of Meissen workmen was secured for setting the enterprise on foot. The manufacture is represented at South Kensington among other pieces by an important vase with a portrait of the Crown Prince, afterwards Frederick VI. of Denmark.
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Coffee-pot, Ludwigsburg, about 1760. Height, 8½ in. Collection of Mr. J. H. Fitzhenry.
No. 1990. See p. [71].
Mark: the cipher of Carl Eugen of Württemberg under a ducal crown.
