Lot Essay
See J. Folnesics and Dr. E. Braun, Geschichte der K.K. Wiener Porzellan Manufaktur 1718-1864, 1907, pp. 73, 77, 78, 99 for a discussion of this service, several pieces of which with similar Metternich-Sandor and Rothschild provenance were sold Christie's, New York, 3 December 1977, lots 109-115.