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Lot 72

A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the Gradenigo Service, circa 1739

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the Gradenigo Service, circa 1739

Each painted with the arms of Gradenigo against a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, the continuous scene on the teabowl above two iron-red lines, a similar, purple-monochrome, circular vignette within concentric circles in purple to the well of the teabowl, gilt foliate scrollwork borders to rims, three concentric iron-red circles around footrim of saucer, the saucer: 13.1cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high, rossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, four gilt dots to both, impressed Dreher's marks for Johann Gottlob Pietzsch and Johann Christoph Schumann, incised / inside footrim of teabowl (minor wear) (2)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 12 May 1986, lot 242;
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 13 November 1989, lot 148;
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain, Part II, sold in these rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 78;
Acquired in the above sale

Literature:
Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. II (1999), no. 323

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

Perhaps made for Gerolamo Gradenigo, of the Santa Giustina branch of the family - which boasts three Doges - or for his brother Piero, or for Vincenzo II Gradenigo of the San Pantalon branch (M. Cassidy-Geiger, Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 228).

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