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Lot 180
A Meissen armorial plate from the Ferrero service, circa 1740
7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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A Meissen armorial plate from the Ferrero service, circa 1740
The wavy gilt-edged rim surmounted by the coat-of-arms, decorated with Holzschnittblumen and insects, 24cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze blue, impressed 16 (haircracks to glaze surface, very minor surface wear)
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Provenance:
With Elfriede Langeloh, Cologne;
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück, acquired from the above in 1971
From a service made for the Piedmontese statesman, Carlo Francesco Vincenzo Ferrero, Marchese d'Ormea (1680-1745), who held various ministerial posts under the kings of Sardinia, including minister for foreign affairs and of the interior, as well ambassador in Dresden, culminating in his appointment in 1742 as Grand Chancellor of the kingdom. He served both Vittorio Amadeo II, whom Augustus the Strong sent lavish gifts of Meissen porcelain in 1725 (Cassidy-Geiger 2007, pp. 209-212), as well as his son, Carlo Emmanuele I, in whose favour Vittorio Amadeo abdicated in 1730. The circumstances in which Ferrero acquired this service are not recorded, though it is tempting to speculate that he may have received the service as a gift from Augustus III, perhaps while ambassador in Dresden, or in connection with diplomatic manoeuvrings following the death in 1740 of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, without a male heir, which led to the War of the Austrian Succession.
There are only a few pieces of this service recorded, all of them plates and dishes. The only shaped piece, a shallow bowl from the service, was sold at Sotheby's London, 28 May 2009, lot 321 (d'Agliano / Melegati 2001, no. 102). Other plates are in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim; in the Wark collection; three dishes (30cm and 38.5cm diam.) are in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (d'Agliano / Melegati loc. cit.); one in the Museo Civico in Turin. A plate from the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, was sold in these Rooms, 25 November 2009, lot 94.
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