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Lot Essay
Engravings by Melchior Küssell after the drawings by Johann Wilhelm Baur (or Bauren) were used as graphic sources for this service. Two works were used; Iohann Wilhelm Bauren, Underschidliche Prospecten Welche er in dennen Landen Italiae und dan auf seiner Heimreis, Friaul, Kärnten, Steir, nach dem Leben gezeichnet. In das Kupfer gebracht durch Melchioren Küssell zu Augspurg (1681), and Iohann Wilhelm Baur, Iconographia, begreift in sich Allerhand Meerporten, Gaerten Palatia, so durch Italia und benachbarten Provincien zu Melchior Küssell (1682).
The early provenance of this service still remains obscure, as there do not appear to be any records relating to the original order. The service was in the possession of the Christie-Miller family since the 1840s, when by tradition it was acquired from a member of the Orleans family in Paris. Until the appearance of 62 pieces from the Estate of the late S.R. Christie-Miller at Sotheby's in 1970, only two pieces of the service had been known and published; a plate, formerly in the Bernal Collection and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Honey, Dresden China, pl. XXIVb, and a dish in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, by Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan (Leipzig, 1926), p. 156, fig. 46. Since then, other pieces from the service have surfaced on the market, including two bowls sold in these Rooms.
An octagonal dish from the service was sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lot 95, and another on 7th July 2003, lot 100. Others were sold by Christie's Geneva on 13th November 1989, lots 155 and 156, and on 8th May 1989, lot 103. Three, sold by Sotheby's on 7th July 1970, lots 1, 20 and 43, are now in the Pflueger Collection, New York, and are illustrated by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' Catalogue (London, 1993), pp. 42-45; and another, sold in the same sale, lot 26 (part), is now in the Carabelli Collection, Switzerland, and is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain, Carabelli Collection' Catalogue (Munich, 2000), pp. 242-243, no. 118.
The early provenance of this service still remains obscure, as there do not appear to be any records relating to the original order. The service was in the possession of the Christie-Miller family since the 1840s, when by tradition it was acquired from a member of the Orleans family in Paris. Until the appearance of 62 pieces from the Estate of the late S.R. Christie-Miller at Sotheby's in 1970, only two pieces of the service had been known and published; a plate, formerly in the Bernal Collection and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Honey, Dresden China, pl. XXIVb, and a dish in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, by Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan (Leipzig, 1926), p. 156, fig. 46. Since then, other pieces from the service have surfaced on the market, including two bowls sold in these Rooms.
An octagonal dish from the service was sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lot 95, and another on 7th July 2003, lot 100. Others were sold by Christie's Geneva on 13th November 1989, lots 155 and 156, and on 8th May 1989, lot 103. Three, sold by Sotheby's on 7th July 1970, lots 1, 20 and 43, are now in the Pflueger Collection, New York, and are illustrated by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' Catalogue (London, 1993), pp. 42-45; and another, sold in the same sale, lot 26 (part), is now in the Carabelli Collection, Switzerland, and is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain, Carabelli Collection' Catalogue (Munich, 2000), pp. 242-243, no. 118.