A rare Meissen porcelain 'Coronation Service' stand

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The following two lots, previously undocumented, can be related to the important 'Coronation Service', one of the famous armorial services produced in Meissen. For a pair of plates in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg and a discussion of the service, see Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 2000, Vol. II, pp. 524-5, nos. 343-4. By repute the service was ordered for the celebration festivities of the Coronation of Augustus III as King of Poland in 1734, although up to the present day no official evidence can be found to confirm this. Archival records show that the first delivery to the Japanese Palace comprised 77 items, including plates, dishes and four tureens manufactured between 1733 and 1734. Later additional deliveries between 1734 and 1740 are undocumented. The stand bears identical trefoil coat-of-arms and can be linked to a very similar tureen stand from the Sulkowski service designed by Kaendler in 1735 (Collection Dr. E. Schneider, Düsseldorf, see exhibition catalogue Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München, R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, p. 116 and Tafel XVIII Kat Nr. 488).

A rare Meissen porcelain 'Coronation Service' stand

1734-1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A rare Meissen porcelain 'Coronation Service' stand
1734-1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Of rectangular shape with concave corners, moulded with a border of Sulkowski Ozier and painted with scattered Kakiemon flower-sprays and tied Reisigbündels or corn-stooks, applied with two crowned arms of Saxony and Poland in a gilt trefoil escutcheon, raised on four palmette feet (broken in some fragments and restored with related overpainting, a loss to one foot extremity)
43 cm. wide

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