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Find your local specialistA Meissen armorial chocolate cup and saucer
Each painted with an unidentified arms and those of Da Ponte and scattered flowers, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the ear-shaped handle embellished in gilding, the saucer: 13.4cm diam., the chocolate cup: 7.2cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt 49. to both, impressed 63 to saucer (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1990
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 338
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Rainer Rückert (Führer durch die Schausammlungen des Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München, Zweigmuseum Lustheim, 1985) indicated that part of the armorial on this service belonged to the widow of the House of Da Ponte. It has not been clearly established that the armorial is in fact that of the Da Ponte family, although it shows great resemblance to the armorial of the above mentioned, only the bridge, here in white, is in fact gold in Custoza (Il Libro d'Arme di Venezia, Verona, 1979).
The most famous member of the Da Ponte family was Nicolò da Ponte (1491–1585), who was the 87th doge of the Venetian republic. He ruled in a relatively tranquil period, and to the high age of 94.
