Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Neuruppin 1781 – 1841 Berlin). Design for a silver tureen. 1837 Pen-and-ink drawing in black, partially washed, over pencil on laid paper with semicircular finish (watermark: HONIG). 50 × 56 cm (19 ⅝ × 22 in.). Signed, dated and inscribed in the lower right by the artist in pen and brown: Schinkel. 37 Zeichnung in Natur-Größe. At the lower margin inscribed (difficulty legibly): Ordenskranz - alte Geschichte[?] - Minerva u. Zögling bezeichnend - Planimetrie[?] Lorbeerkranz mit den Schlachten. Namen d. [ ...] Joh. Rauch. Design for the silver tureen executed by Johann Georg Hossauers in 1842, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv. no. M.34:1 to 3-1992). [3161] Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired circa 1947/48, thence by descent to the present owner) Exhibition: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Architektur, Malerei, Kunstgewerbe. Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, in der Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, 1981, cat. no. 309, with ill. Literature and illustration: Karl Friedrich Schinkel und August Leisnier: Vorbilder für Fabrikanten und Handwerker. Berlin 1863, S. 101, Abt. II, Blatt 20 / Wolfgang Scheffler: Berliner Goldschmiede. Berlin, Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1968, p. 439, ill. 160 / Pippa Shirley: A Schinkel Tureen. In: The National Art Collections Fund Review 1993, London, 1993, p. 43-46 (ill. S. 44)