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A Dutch Delft polychrome dated commemorative royal armorial pewter-mounted tankard

CIRCA 1707, MARKED FOR LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METALEN POT, THE INSIDE TO THE PEWTER COVER IMPRESSED FOR JOHANN CHRISTIAN BÖSIGKE, DRESDEN, AFTER 1719

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A Dutch Delft polychrome dated commemorative royal armorial pewter-mounted tankard
Circa 1707, marked for Lambertus van Eenhoorn at de Metalen Pot, the inside to the pewter cover impressed for Johann Christian Bösigke, Dresden, after 1719
Walzenkrug, the cylindrical body decorated with the crowned royal coat-of-arms of King Augustus the Strong, circled by the blue ribbon of the Danish Order of the Elephant, inscribed FAR and RES for Friedrich Augustus Rex and Rex Electuarius Saxoniae, the crown supported by cupids, further with elaborate military paraphernalia, flanked by a nude warrior, above 1707 within a circular frame, the reverse with chinoiserie flowering branches and two birds, the handle with scrolls, the neck with triangular motifs, the base and the neck mounted, the terraced cover incised .C.K. and connected with a large ball thumbpiece to the handle
27.3 cm. high
See also illustration on front cover

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拍品专文

Frederick Augustus succeeded his brother John George IV in 1694 as Elector of Saxony and embarked on large ambitions. His ancestry shows that he was half of Brandenburg descent, mingled with other German strains. The more elaborate blazon of Saxony shows the shield of the Marshalcy over quarterings for Saxony, Thuringia, Magdeburg and Landsberg. In 1696 John Sobieski, King of Poland, died and Augustus the Strong, as he is usually known, put himself forward for election. He was crowned at Cracow in 1697. He held an extremely brilliant court in Dresden. Great patron of the Arts, he promoted the manufacture of the first European hard-paste porcelain in about 1709.

By repute this tankard has been given by an envoy of the Dutch United Provinces to Augustus the Strong in order to commemorate the first decade of his reign as King of Poland (1697-1707).

See D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, München, 1994, p. 378 for the mark of Lambertus van Eenhoorn (1651-1724, owner of de Metalen Pot in 1691).
See E. Hintze, Sächsische Zinngiesser, Aalen, 1964, p.71 nr. 342 for the pewter Meisterzeichen of Johann Christian Bösigke, born in Magdeburg, Meister in 1719, and still mentioned in 1754.