CIRCA 1785, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND STAR MARK

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A MEISSEN (MARCOLINI) OVAL PORTRAIT PLAQUE
CIRCA 1785, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND STAR MARK
Painted and stippled with a half-length portrait of the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel after Tischbein, wearing a white wig with a black ribbon at the back, an ermine-lined scarlet velvet robe and blue sash over a red-lined blue coat with grey scrolling foliage and the star of the Order of The Garter inscribed HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE, the cross of another Order about his neck, against a stippled grey ground, edged with a gilt band, the top edge and reverse with a pierced slot for suspension (slight wear to gilding, enamels with minute areas of wear adjacent to edge)
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

The sitter is Landgraf Friedrich II von Hessen-Kassel (1720-1785). Siegfried Ducret illustrates a Fürstenberg plaque dated 1770 after the same Tischbein portrait in Furstenberger Porzellan (Brunswick, 1965), p. 66, pl. 61, where the Landgrave is depicted by Johann Heinrich Eisenträger in similar attire and in a similar pose, but stands before a columned background.

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