Material:         Hard paste porcelain.    
Date:              Circa 1840.  
Dimensions:   Approx 9 Ins wide,
Condition:      Perfect condition. Minute wear/retouch to gold. 
 
  Here is a superb and rare porcelain plate, bearing the Crown and monogram of 
KING FRIEDRICH WILHELM IV  1795-1861 OF PRUSSIA.
 
  
 Often referred to as the "romanticist on the throne", he is remembered mostly for the many fine buildings he  built in Berlin, Potsdam, as well as for the completion of the Gothic Cathedral at Cologne. He was a political conservative, and in 1849 was offered  the title of Emperor of the Germans by the Parliament in Frankfurt, which he rejected.