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A Meissen armorial cup and saucer from the Pisani and Gambara service circa 1750-55
£12,000 - £15,000
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Find your local specialistA Meissen armorial cup and saucer from the Pisani and Gambara service
Each painted with the arms of Pisani and Gambara, on the cup against a continuous landscape scene depicting figures and large buildings in an estuary setting, the saucer with a vignette depicting a couple on horseback attended by a groom with a church in the distance, the rims with gilt borders of scrollwork alternating with trellis and scale-ground panels, the handle embellished in gilding, the cup: 6.8cm high, the saucer: 13.5cm diam. crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 7. to both, impressed 2 (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Albert Weitnauer Collection, Bern, sold Christie's Geneva, 11 November 1985, lot 357;
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, Zürich, sold Sotheby's London, 15 November 1994, lot 56;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 324
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
The arms on this service have been attributed to Almoró Luigi Pisani III (1701-1767) and his wife, Paolina Gambara, who married on 30 April 1753. According to another source (see Literature), Almoró III, the son of Doge Alvise Pisani and himself Procurator, was married to a Caterina Gambara, though it is possibly the same person.
