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13 juin 2014

A rare Meissen armorial circular dish from the 'Coronation Service', circa 1733-34

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A rare Meissen armorial circular dish from the 'Coronation Service', circa 1733-34. Photo: Bonhams.

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The centre painted with the quartered Arms of Saxony and Poland within a crowned escutcheon and scattered flowers and banded hedges in Kakiemon style, the rim with a broad band of elaborate gilt scrollwork, 22.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Dreher's mark x for Johann Daniel Rehschuh, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=147-/ W, Schloss Moritzburg inventory number I.C.78 in red enamel (minor scattered wear). Estimate £15,000 - 25,000 (€19,000 - 31,000)

Provenance: The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;
Haus Wettin Albertinischer Linie e.V., Schloss Moritzburg (from 1924);
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 June 1996, lot 482

A lack of archival evidence means that it remains uncertain whether this service was ordered by Augustus the Strong before his death on 1 February 1733, or by his son in anticipation of his election to the Polish throne in Warsaw in January 1734. The prominence of the Polish arms perhaps suggests the latter, though the name 'Coronation service' is a 19th-century title.

The service was delivered to the Japanese Palace in Dresden in 1734, when, according to a delivery specification (published by C. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (July 1996), p. 91), it comprised 77 parts in total, including 37 plates, and only six such small lobed dishes. The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace (Boltz, ibid., p. 76), lists the service under number 147: 'Ein Tafel-Service, mit dem Königl. Pohlnis, und ChurFürstl. Sächsi. Wappen, fein mit Golde und Zierrathen, aufm Boden mit gebundenen Korn-Aehren, und kleinen Blümgen, der Rand sehr reich mit vergoldeten Zierrathen eingefaßt' [a table service with the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon arms, fine with gold and decorations, with bundles of corn sheaves and small flowers on the surface, the rim with very rich gold decorations]. The inventory lists the same pieces as the 1734 delivery specification, except for three missing tureens and a broken plate. According to the catalogue of the Wark Collection catalogue (1984, no. 516), part of the service was transferred to the Hofconditorei (court pantry) in 1792, and was used at the Dresden Residence for special court functions. The service became the private property of the Saxon royal family in 1924, who continued to use it at Schloss Moritzburg on special occasions.

In addition to the examples listed by Dieter Hoffmeister (Meissen Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister (1999)), other plates from the service are in the Seattle Art Museum (inv. no. 69.201, gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson); in the Ludwig Collection, Bamberg (R. Hanemann (pub.), Goldchinese und Indianischen Blumen (2010), no. 69); and in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 186). Two plates were sold in these Rooms from the Hoffmeister Collection, 25 November 2009, lot 74, and 26 May 2010, lot 65.

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond Street, 18 Jun 2014 - http://www.bonhams.com/

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