Lot Essay
The arms are those of Carl Frederic von Holstein and Dorothea Anna Margrethe Ahlefeldt, surrounded by the Elephant order's chain
Carl Frederic von Holstein was born in Stockholm in 1700 and died in 1763. He was the official representative in the Admiralty and Minister in Russia under Christian VI (1699-1746), King of Denmark. In 1752 he was made a Knight of the Elephant order, the supreme Danish declaration awarded usually to leaders of foreign countries. Margareth von Ahlefeldt (1712-1758) was his second wife
For a similar tureen and cup in the Frederiksborg Museum, cf. Grandjean, B.L., Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, 1965, p.42. Cf. also Phillips, J.G., China Trade Porcelain, p.116, fig.41 where a similarly modelled tureen is illustrated along with a Höchst original by Ignatz Hess, circa 1750. For other examples cf. Beurdeley, J.M. Porcelain of the East India Company, p.41, fig.19 and p.49, fig.23; Lunsingh Scheurleer, D.F., Chinese Export Porcelain, p.218, no.154; Howard, D., and Ayers, J., China for the West, p.552, pl.571, where the tureen is decorated with gilt flower-sprays; and Du Boulay, A., Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.280, no.3 sold in these Rooms, 1 March 1976, lot 7. Cf. also a similar example sold at Christie's in Amsterdam, 19 May 1993, lot 194
The shape was probably based on a silver prototype and then copied in faience at several European factories including Strasbourg, Crailsheim, Nuremberg and Höchst
Carl Frederic von Holstein was born in Stockholm in 1700 and died in 1763. He was the official representative in the Admiralty and Minister in Russia under Christian VI (1699-1746), King of Denmark. In 1752 he was made a Knight of the Elephant order, the supreme Danish declaration awarded usually to leaders of foreign countries. Margareth von Ahlefeldt (1712-1758) was his second wife
For a similar tureen and cup in the Frederiksborg Museum, cf. Grandjean, B.L., Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, 1965, p.42. Cf. also Phillips, J.G., China Trade Porcelain, p.116, fig.41 where a similarly modelled tureen is illustrated along with a Höchst original by Ignatz Hess, circa 1750. For other examples cf. Beurdeley, J.M. Porcelain of the East India Company, p.41, fig.19 and p.49, fig.23; Lunsingh Scheurleer, D.F., Chinese Export Porcelain, p.218, no.154; Howard, D., and Ayers, J., China for the West, p.552, pl.571, where the tureen is decorated with gilt flower-sprays; and Du Boulay, A., Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.280, no.3 sold in these Rooms, 1 March 1976, lot 7. Cf. also a similar example sold at Christie's in Amsterdam, 19 May 1993, lot 194
The shape was probably based on a silver prototype and then copied in faience at several European factories including Strasbourg, Crailsheim, Nuremberg and Höchst