
Sebastian Kuhn
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Head of Department, Director

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Provenance:
Anon., sale Christie's, 7th May 1973, lot 163 (part);
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 13th November 1989, lot 128;
Private collection, Germany, sold Christie's London, 31 March 2008, lot 322;
The Twinight Collection
Exhibited:
Paris, Musée national de céramique à Sèvres, Chefs d'oeuvres céramiques de collections privées allemandes, 30 June-20 July 1996
A part of the service was acquired in 1973 by Dr. Ernst Schneider, who, in addition to his own collection in Schloss Lustheim, gave cups to the Rijksmuseum, the Museo Internationale della Ceramiche in Faenza, and the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. The Meissen painters' work reports for 1790 mention several painters working on a service - possibly the same service - decorated with portraits of Marcolini and his wife, Maria Anna Baroness O'Kelly, whom he married in May 1778 (see A.L. Den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (1999), no. 264).