TWO SILVER PLATED WITH THE MONOGRAMM OF KING OTTO I OF GREECE

Description:

Vienna, around 1867
D. 24,5 cm
Round plates with palmette leaf rim. Engraved crown and monogram O1 on the rim. Viennese Diana head mark since 1867, master's mark FS Filipp Scheidl (trade licence 1858). Weight approx. 864g. Slight scratches.
Private collection Süddeutschland.
Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach (born 1815 in Salzburg) was a Bavarian prince and the first King of Greece from 1832-1862. He returned to Bavaria in exile in 1862. The original dinner service of Otto I was produced in Paris in 1832/38, later additions from around 1855 by the Munich silversmith "Mayrhofer" are known, of which plates can be found in the Otto King of Greece Museum in the municipality of Ottobrunn. According to the hallmarking, the Viennese examples must have been posthumous additions to the royal service.