The following treasure is from the living estate of Ailene & Buddy Ford; noted dealers and lifelong collectors of exceptional antique & vintage heirlooms. The Ford estate presents highly valuable items from a diverse group of genres, 95% + in excellent condition. This exquisite estate has something for every eclectic collector! xxxxxxxxxxx. The AEAA is very pleased to present this brilliant deep forest green transfer & gilded portrait plate, we believe represents the famed Queen Louise (see history below). This incredible plate sits 9.5 inches in diameter, and carries the thumbprint Bindenschild mark which matches a Carl Thieme, Saxonian Porcelain Factory stamp, from Postchappel, Saxony, Germany. Carl Thieme was founded in 1872, and remained in tact until WW II, when it went into receivership. This is first class display porcelain, which weighs 1# 2 oz., and is in VG condition. xxxxxxxxxxx. Queen Louise of Prussia (1776 – 1810) was painted by Madame Vigee Lebrun in two poses, both a head and full body, but always with a modest scarf around her neck, to conceal a goiter that was inoperable in those days. Born Louise of Meckiburg-Strelitz in 1793, she fell in love & married Frederick William III at 18 years of age, and became a heroine to her people with her steadfast defiance and regal stature during the Napoleonic Wars. The Treaties of Tilsit (East Prussia) were signed here in July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France on a raft moored in the Neman River. This treaty, which created the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Duchy of Warsaw, completed Napoleon's humiliation of the Kingdom of Prussia, when it was deprived of one half of its dominions. This short-lived peace-treaty is also remarkable for quite another reason. Three days before its signing, Prussian Queen Louise tried to persuade Napoleon in a private conversation to ease his hard conditions on Prussia, thereby debasing herself at Tilsit, by bowing to Napoleon and literally begging him to have compassion for her people. Although without any tangible result, Louise's effort greatly endeared her to the Prussian people forever, and established a new respect in Napoleon, for a Queen that he had always regarded as totally inept.

XA - P51 - Very Good+ condition - some general reverse crazing - nearly imperceptible on front