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A Meissen armorial teabowl from the Foscari service, circa 1740

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Meissen armorial teabowl from the Foscari service, circa 1740

Painted with the coat-of-arms supported by two putti, in a continuous landscape including kauffahrtei figures and boats, the centre with a landscape panel in puce and a gilt foliate scrollwork border, 7.6cm diam, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue beneath three gold dots

Footnotes

This service was probably supplied to Francesco Foscari (1704-1790), a historian, lawyer and diplomat who served as envoy to Pope Benedict XIV in Constantinople, Vienna and St. Petersburg. A member of a prominent Venetian family, Francesco owned the palace in which Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony resided during his visit to Venice in 1739. This service may have been given as a mark of gratitude, see M Cassidy-Geiger in Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p.225, fig.128. A saucer from the service was sold by Bonhams 23 May 2012, lot 102 and a cup and two saucers was in the Hoffmeister Collection, Bonhams 25 November 2009, lot 88.

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