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Lot Essay
See the smaller, lobed, saucer-dish from this service sold in these Rooms on 3rd June 1996, lot 482. Also see P. Schnyder von Wartensee, 'Meissen Wappenservice des 18. Jahrhunderts', Mitteilungsblätter der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz (1960), no. 50, pp. 43-50 for a discussion of the arms and the early services bearing either the arms of Saxony or Poland. Another example in the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., USA, is illustrated by Hans Syz et. al, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Smithsonian Institute Catalogue, Vol. I (Washington, 1979), pp. 286-7, no. 180, where other comparable examples are also listed. For a pair of plates in Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg and a discussion of the service, see Dieter Hoffmeister, op. cit. (Hamburg, 2000), Vol. II, pp. 524-5, nos. 343-4, and where he notes that recent research has shown that these plates were in fact commissioned by Augustus III, although there is still no evidence to support them as being commissioned for his coronation in 1733. According to a surviving invoice, a total of 77 pieces, among them 37 plates, were delivered to the Japanese Palace in 1734. A number of deliveries of later pieces, without engraved inventory marks, were also made, although the quantity of pieces is currently not known.