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A Meissen armorial two-handled beaker and saucer from the Albani-Borromeo Service

CIRCA 1730-35, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE SAUCER WITH IMPRESSED * MARK TO FOOTRIM

細節

A Meissen armorial two-handled beaker and saucer from the Albani-Borromeo Service
Circa 1730-35, blue crossed swords marks, the saucer with impressed * mark to footrim
Painted and gilded with shaped escutcheons with the accollée arms of Albani and Borromeo against ermine-line robes surmounted by a coronet supported by a putto, above pierced strapwork with a mask and basket of flowers flanked by palm fronds and festooned with garlands, the reverse with Orientals at various pursuits on a terrace, below a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the gilt double-scroll handles surrounded by scattered indianische Blumen, the interior richly gilt, the saucer similarly decorated with scattered indianische Blumen about the central arms within a border of gilt interlocking scrolls, the underside with three Kakiemon flowering branches below a similar gilt border (minute flaking to gilt rim of beaker, saucer with minute flaking to enamel of a flower)

來源

Anon., sale Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, November 1956, lot 343 or 344

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拍品專文

The arms are those of Carlo Albani (1688-1724) and Theresia Borromeo. The Albani family were among the most prominent of Italian families in the 17th and 18th centuries. Carlo Albani, Duke of Soriano and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire came from Urbino. In 1721 Pope Innocent XIII appointed him Principe del Soglio. In 1713 he married Theresia Borromeo, daughter of the viceroy of Naples, Carlo Borromeo, and his wife Camilla Barberini. Carlo Albani died in 1724 therefore it seems that the Meissen service, dated 1730-35, was produced for his widow. Annibale Albani, Carlo's brother and, later, cardinal and cousin of the Pope, accompanied the 16 year old Friedrich Augustus II of Saxony during his trip to Italy, and thus developed a long-standing relationship between the two houses.

For a beaker and saucer from the same service in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see '18th Century Meissen porcelain, The Hoffmeister Collection' Catalogue (Hamburg, 2000), p. 478, no. 307 and p. 648.

(Left, detail of the figures on the reverse of the beaker)