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A Meissen armorial saucer from the Benada service, circa 1740 image 1
A Meissen armorial saucer from the Benada service, circa 1740 image 2
Lot 54*

2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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A Meissen armorial saucer from the Benada service, circa 1740

Painted with the arms of Benada within a brown-edged, shaped quatrefoil reserve against the gilt ground, the reverse with a purple ground and gilt footrim, 13.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restored)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 77

The Bohemian-Silesian merchant family Benada was elevated to the nobility in 1706. A Meissen plate painted in 1748 by the aristocratic amateur, Carl Ferdinand von Wolfsburg (1692-1764), with the Benada arms is in the Seattle Art Museum (published by J. Emerson et al., Porcelain Stories (2000), pl. 11.5).

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