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A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the service for Christian VI of Denmark, circa 1730-35
5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £15,000 inc. premium
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A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the service for Christian VI of Denmark, circa 1730-35
The saucer decorated with the crowned Royal Arms of Denmark, reserved on the chain of the Order of the Elephant, the teabowl painted on one side with the crowned monogram of Christian VI flanked by crossed palm fronds and indianische Blumen, and a finely painted river landscape scene within a gilt cartouche embellished with scrollwork and floral swags on the reverse, the inside with a circular medallion of chrysanthemum heads reserved on a purple trellis within iron-red borders, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the reverse of the saucer with a bird, insect and trailing indianische Blumen, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 1. to both, incised / inside footrims (2)
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Provenance:
Given by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, to King Christian VI of Denmark; his consort
Queen Sophie Magdalene of Denmark (1700-70); Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, to 1794;
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, 1795-97;
Sold in 1797 as part of lot 7 in the sale of property damaged in the 1795 fire at Christianborg Palace;
Sold by the descendants of the purchaser in the above sale, Christie's London, 1 December 1986, lot 183 (part)
This service was unusual for combining chinoiserie decoration and European harbour scenes, and for its size. When it was sold in 1797, it was described as including two waste bowls, two sugar boxes and eighteen pairs of teabowls, but no coffee pot. The waste bowl, two beakers and saucers and two teabowls and saucers were acquired by Rosenborg Castle in 1986. A teabowl and saucer from the service is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 100); another is in the Carabelli Collection (U. Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli (2000), no. 57); and others were sold in these Rooms, from the Hoffmeister Collection, 26 May 2010, lot 70, and from the Marouf Collection, 2 December 2015. lot 41. A Meissen desk set in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg is decorated with a fragment of a court calendar recording the birthdays of Christian VI and his consort, Sophia Magdalena, in 1735 (J. Lessmann, Porzellan (2006), p. 36).
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