A GÖGGINGEN HEXAFOIL BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATE painted with the accolé Arms of Hesse Darmstadt and Modena beneath a crown and ith lion supporters, the border with rococo foliage (rim chip at 3 o'clock and frits), script mark Göggingen in blue, circa 1750

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A GÖGGINGEN HEXAFOIL BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL PLATE painted with the accolé Arms of Hesse Darmstadt and Modena beneath a crown and ith lion supporters, the border with rococo foliage (rim chip at 3 o'clock and frits), script mark Göggingen in blue, circa 1750
24cm. diam.

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This is part of a service made for Leopold v. Hessen-Darmstadt, brother of the Göggingen factory's founder Prince Bishop Joseph, and his wife Henrietta of Modena.

An oval dish with the Prince Bishop's arms, in the Hamburg Kunstgewerbe museum is illustrated by Reiscbeiter die deutsche Faÿancen, Leipzig, 1921, fig. 135

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