Nymphenburg Porcelain Lidded Soup Tureen from Adolf Hitler`s personal Formal Tableware at the Deutscher Hof
An incredibly rare snow-white porcelain dome-Lidded Soup Tureen, specially produced by the Nymphenburg factory in Munich for Adolf Hitler`s personal formal tableware, used exclusively at the Deutscher Hof, Nürnberg.
The tureen bears a gilt national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika to the front, the upper rim has a band of gilt surrounding the entire lip and a thinner gilt band about 1cm from the base. The tureen has two handles one on each side. To the base can be found a dark blue-green Nymphenburg maker’s mark, an impressed Nymphenburg stamping, and also the impressed number ‘1131’ which may indicate the model/pattern. Topping it off is a most stunning domed lid, which is topped with a beautiful knurled lifter. The rim has a band of gilt to the rim edge which matches the bowl rim on which it rests, there is a further little gilt band to the base of the knurled lifter. To the front and center of the lid is yet another gilt national eagle clutching a wreathed swastika, when lined/centered with the bowl`s eagle the small semi-circular ladle opening on the lid is then perfectly positioned.
Hitler most commonly used Meissen tableware, though the Nymphenburg firm manufactured the formal dinnerware for smaller settings, including his train and Nürnberg’s Deutscher Hof hotel. While in Nürnberg Hitler stayed at the Deutscher Hof Hotel, he had a large room on the first floor with windows from which he could review his marching columns. In 1936 an extension was built at the hotel which provided Hitler with a balcony, commonly referred to as the Führer balcony.
