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Lot Essay
Prospero Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758) was elected in 1740 and was noted for his passionate sponsorship of art, culture and learning. This teacaddy forms part of a presentation service given to the Pontif for his assistance in the foundation of a new Royal church on the banks of the Elbe, completed by 1756 and consecrated in 1751, see Winfried Baer, 'Zur Entwicklung der Vedutenmalerei beim europäischen Porzellan im 18. Jahrhundert', Carl Daniel Freydanck 1811-1887 Ein Vedutenmaler der KPM (Berlin, 1987), pp. 12-13, pl. 2.
For the teapot and cover and a teabowl and saucer from this service see Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts' Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, pp. 494-5, nos. 316-7, both pieces having appeared as 'The Property of a Ducal Family' in these Rooms on 2nd December 1974, lot 145 and 148, the teapot and cover subsequently on 5th December 1994, lot 225. The author discusses the link between the graphic source of the Papal Service and the celebrated Christie-Miller service (see this sale lot 42), the engraving of Melchior Küssell after drawings by Johan Wilhelm Baur published in Augsburg in 1681 and 1682. The service also uses more contemporary sources, as is evident with the view of the Hofkirche depicted on the coffee-pot now in the Ludwig Collection, Nurnberg. It shows the façade facing the Elbe and is probably taken from the engraving by Lorenzo Zucchi after the second design by architect Gaitano Chiaveri in 1739/40. Interestingly, the view of the Augustsbrüke used on the slop-basin does not include the new church. The scaffolding-clad façade features in contemporary paintings such as the view of Dresden from the right bank of the Elbe by Bernardo Bellotto in the Staatliche Kunstsamlungen, Dresden.
Other pieces form the service are recorded by Hoffmeister, loc. cit. including the dated slop-basin and the pair of coffee-cups and saucers sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lots 96 and 97 originally purchased from Langeloh in 1959 and cited by Paul Schnyder von Wartensee, 'Meissen Wappenservice des 18. Jahrhunderts', Mitteilungsblätter der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz (1960), p. 48.
For the teapot and cover and a teabowl and saucer from this service see Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts' Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, pp. 494-5, nos. 316-7, both pieces having appeared as 'The Property of a Ducal Family' in these Rooms on 2nd December 1974, lot 145 and 148, the teapot and cover subsequently on 5th December 1994, lot 225. The author discusses the link between the graphic source of the Papal Service and the celebrated Christie-Miller service (see this sale lot 42), the engraving of Melchior Küssell after drawings by Johan Wilhelm Baur published in Augsburg in 1681 and 1682. The service also uses more contemporary sources, as is evident with the view of the Hofkirche depicted on the coffee-pot now in the Ludwig Collection, Nurnberg. It shows the façade facing the Elbe and is probably taken from the engraving by Lorenzo Zucchi after the second design by architect Gaitano Chiaveri in 1739/40. Interestingly, the view of the Augustsbrüke used on the slop-basin does not include the new church. The scaffolding-clad façade features in contemporary paintings such as the view of Dresden from the right bank of the Elbe by Bernardo Bellotto in the Staatliche Kunstsamlungen, Dresden.
Other pieces form the service are recorded by Hoffmeister, loc. cit. including the dated slop-basin and the pair of coffee-cups and saucers sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lots 96 and 97 originally purchased from Langeloh in 1959 and cited by Paul Schnyder von Wartensee, 'Meissen Wappenservice des 18. Jahrhunderts', Mitteilungsblätter der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz (1960), p. 48.