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Lot 92

A Meissen armorial cup and saucer from the Giustinian-Lolin service
circa 1740-45

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £20,000

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A Meissen armorial cup and saucer from the Giustinian-Lolin service

circa 1740-45
Each decorated with the coat-of-arms of the Giustinian-Lolin family over a landscape scene of travellers by ruins and a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, formal gilt borders to rims, the saucer: 13.5cm diam., the cup: 2.6cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt mark K. to both (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Korthaus Collection, Frankfurt, sold Christie's London, 1 March 1993, lot 147;
Acquired in the above sale

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 328

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

This cup and saucer bear the arms of Giustinian-Lolin, two separate Venetian patrician families that appear to have united in the 17th Century after the Lolin family died out in 1626. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger suggests that the service was probably made for one of three Giustinian brothers - Zuanne, Alvise or Marco - or for Almoro Giustinian, a member of the San Vidal branch of the family, who married Benedetta Dolfin in 1714 (Cassidy-Geiger 2007, p. 228).
The last piece from this rare service to appear on the market, a coffee pot, was sold at Christie's London, 9 July 2001 lot 208.

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