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A large Meissen armorial dish from the Hennicke service circa 1735-38
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Find your local specialistA large Meissen armorial dish from the Hennicke service
Painted with scattered indianische Blumen surrounding a central medallion with a Kakiemon landscape, centred at the top with the coat-of-arms surrounded by gold and blue scrollwork, the arms surmounted by a gold rampant lion flanked by two blue and red and black and gold wings, brown-edged wavy rim, 38.8cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised 4 inside the footrim, impressed Dreher's mark for Johann Christoph Pietzsch
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1979
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 350
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Johann Christian Hennicke (1681-1752) was raised to the nobility in 1728 by the Holy Roman Emperor. He was an influential Cabinet Minister under Count Brühl, and became deputy director of the Meissen factory in 1739. The arms on this service go back to before he was made Freiherr or Baron, in 1741, and Graf or Count, in 1745.
Although pieces from the service have occasionally appeared on the market, only two other pieces of this size have been sold: one from the collection of Dr. Marcel Nyffeler, Zürich (Christie's London, 9 June 1986, lot 119) and Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1989, lot 110. Recent examples from this service to appear on the market include: a tureen stand (Christie's London, 11 December 2000, lot 437); two spoons (Christie's New York, 18 October 2002, lot 432); and a tureen (Christie's London, 14 July 2006, lot 100). A tureen with applied flowers from the service was sold at Bonhams in London, 10 November 2004, lot 18. Two sauce boats and a spoon from the service are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Den Blaauwen 2000, nos. 110 and 111), and a pair of dishes is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 2008, nos. 202a and b).
