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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE VON HENNICKE SERVICE
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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE VON HENNICKE SERVICE

CIRCA 1735-38

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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED ARMORIAL TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE VON HENNICKE SERVICE
CIRCA 1735-38
Of oval bombé form, gadrooned and fluted in section, painted with scattered Kakiemon flower-sprays, each side with a central coat of arms enriched in gilding and surmounted by a helmet issuing mantling, the double-scroll handles with ram's head terminals, the gadrooned and fluted rim and stiff-leaf border above the footrim both enriched in gilding, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a pierced coronet finial (finial a replacement, crack to body from side through base, slight chipping to rims and upper rim of cover near finial, large chips to footrim, areas of very slight wear)
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high overall
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Lot Essay

For a pair of chargers and a porcelain spoon from this service, see Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts' Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 2000), Vol. II, pp. 532-535, nos. 350-353.

Johann Christian Hennicke (1681-1752) was Count Brühl's favourite henchman, and was knighted in 1728 by the Holy Roman Emperor. This service was made for him shortly before he became the deputy director of the Meissen factory in 1739, and the coat of arms on the service refers to his position as a knight. Three years later he was made a baron in 1741, and then a count in 1745.

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