A Meissen Kakiemon armorial ormolu-mounted shaped oval tureen stand from the von Hennicke Service

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A Meissen Kakiemon armorial ormolu-mounted shaped oval tureen stand from the von Hennicke Service

CIRCA 1735-38, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND DREHER'S :. TO FOOTRIM

细节

A Meissen Kakiemon armorial ormolu-mounted shaped oval tureen stand from the von Hennicke Service
Circa 1735-38, blue crossed swords mark and Dreher's :. to footrim
Painted in the Kakiemon palette with a stylised hut among trees and rockwork in a circular medallion surrounded by scattered Indianische Blumen, flowerheads and wheatsheafs, the border with the arms twice, flanked by turquoise and gilt scrolls, within a shaped brown line rim, the ormolu handles cast as two C-scrolls joined by a shell flanked by foliage (the porcelain handles lacking, two small areas of restoration to rim near handle)
18¼ in. (46 cm.) wide overall

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拍品专文

This service was made for the Cabinet Minister Count Johann Christian von Hennicke, Vice-Director of the Meissen factory in 1739. The arms are those of von Hennicke before he was made a Freiherr in 1741 and a Graf in 1745. For two plates from this service in the Hoffmeister Collection, see Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg 1999), Band II, pp. 532-533, nos. 350 and 351 and pp. 592-593. Also see a dish from the same service sold in these Rooms on 3rd October 1988, lot 149.