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Lot Essay
The Arms are those of Giustinian-Lolin. For a coffee-cup from the same service sold in these Rooms on 1st March 1993, lot 147 and now in the Hoffmeister Collection, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, pp. 506-507, no. 328. Also see another example from the same service sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1976, lot 116; another sold by Sotheby's Zurich on 22nd May 1981, lot 34 and a saucer from this service sold by Christie's Geneva on 13th November 1989, lot 145.
It appears to be still unclear as to how the two Venetian houses of Giustinian and Lolin became one. See the Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, p. 628 for a discussion of this family. It is generally held that the families were amalgamated in the 17th century once the Lolin family had died out in 1626, but views vary as to whether the new amalgamated line began through adoption or via a legacy. Further research is therefore needed to establish the individual for whom this chocolate-pot was made.
It appears to be still unclear as to how the two Venetian houses of Giustinian and Lolin became one. See the Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, p. 628 for a discussion of this family. It is generally held that the families were amalgamated in the 17th century once the Lolin family had died out in 1626, but views vary as to whether the new amalgamated line began through adoption or via a legacy. Further research is therefore needed to establish the individual for whom this chocolate-pot was made.