TWO MEISSEN KAKIEMON ARMORIAL SPOONS FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR GRAF VON HENNICKE

1735-1738

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TWO MEISSEN KAKIEMON ARMORIAL SPOONS FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR GRAF VON HENNICKE
1735-1738
Each bowl and handle moulded and enriched in gilt as an oval shell on branch handle, the underside with shell-moulded finial, its front painted with the arms of Johann Christian Hennicke, the bowl and handle with scattered Kakiemon flowerheads
5¾in. (14.6cm.) long (2)

Provenance

With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York

Lot Essay

Johann Christian Hennicke served as the chief operating officer of the Meissen factory under the directorship of Count Brühl. See Meissener Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, pp. 532-533, no. 350-351; pp. 592-593, no. 15 for a discussion of the service to which the present spoons originally belonged and the man for which it was originally made.

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