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Bol à thé et soucoupe armoriés en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service Foscari, vers 1740
A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the Foscari service, circa 1740
A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the Foscari service, circa 1740
30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€5,000 - €7,000
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Bol à thé et soucoupe armoriés en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service Foscari, vers 1740
A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer from the Foscari service, circa 1740
A Meissen armorial teabowl and saucer 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 high, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue beneath three gold dots,
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The Liane Richards Collection of British and European Ceramics, Bonhams, London, 13 April 2016, lot 1
The Foscari family provided the longest-serving Doge in the history of Venice, Francesco Foscari, who was Doge from 1423 until he was forced to abdicate in 1458. This service may have been supplied to a later Francesco Foscari (1704-1790), a historian, lawyer and diplomat, who was envoy to Pope Benedict XIV (also the recipient of a Meissen service), Constantinople, Vienna and St. Petersburg. Francesco Foscari was also the owner of the palace in which Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony resided during his visit to Venice in late 1739. Although Foscari was not the prince's host, the size of the latter's entourage necessitated the use of his palace, and this service may have been given as a mark of gratitude (M. Cassidy-Geiger, "Princes and Porcelain on the Grand Tour of Italy," in Fragile Diplomacy, 2007, p. 225, n. 128).
The waste bowl from the service was acquired by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden for the porcelain collection in the Zwinger at Bonhams London, 2 July 2019, lot 45; and a saucer was sold at Bonhams London, 15 June 2016, lot 127.
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