A WEESP PORCELAIN PORTRAIT TEABOWL AND SAUCER, painted in colours with portraits on a purple trellised rocaille vignette, the edge outlined in black, the bowl with the portrait of Bertram Philip Sigismund Albrecht des H.R.R., count of Gronsveld-Diepenbroick-Impel (1715 - 1772) in formal dress, the saucer with a young male servant holding a cake, knife and fork, indistinctly marked

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A WEESP PORCELAIN PORTRAIT TEABOWL AND SAUCER, painted in colours with portraits on a purple trellised rocaille vignette, the edge outlined in black, the bowl with the portrait of Bertram Philip Sigismund Albrecht des H.R.R., count of Gronsveld-Diepenbroick-Impel (1715 - 1772) in formal dress, the saucer with a young male servant holding a cake, knife and fork, indistinctly marked
first period (1759 - 1762)

Literature

D.A. van Krevelen, Mededelingenblad no.9, Vroeg Weesper porselein met afbeeldingen van de stichter van de manufactuur en zijn echtgenote

Lot Essay

Count van Gronsveld was the founder of the Weesp manufactory in 1759. The rest of this service has been bequeathed to the Weesp museum by the widow of dr. D.A. van Krevelen

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