拍品专文
This extremely rare sugar-box is one of six made for the important service produced between 1735 and 1738 for Alexander Joseph Graf von Sulkowski (1695-1762). It was the first privately commissioned armorial service of large size, and each piece bears the arms of the arms of Sulkowski (on the left) and his wife, Marie Anna Franziska von Stein zu Jettingen (1712-1741). Another one of the six boxes was published by Ernst Zimmermann in Meissner Porzellan (Leipzig, 1926), p. 127, fig. 33.
On the accession of Augustus III in 1733 Sulkowski was made Minister of State, Cabinet Minister, Privy Councillor and an Imperial Count. In spite of his friendship with the King, in February 1738 he was dismissed from Court (see R. Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1990, pp. 267-279). He was allowed to retain his titles and property, and the second delivery of the service (the first delivery took place in 1737) was made to the Japanese Palace three days after his dismissal. The list of items delivered (signed by Höroldt) records six sugar-boxes. This list was published by Hilde Rakebrandt, Meissener Tafelgeschirre des 18. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, 1958. A dish in the Schneider Collection (with Pressnummer 21, see Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 490) is presumably a supplement.
The service was first published and discussed by Julius Lessing, 'Das Porzellangeschirr Sulkowski' Kunstgewerbeblatt (Leipzig, 1888), Vol. 4, pp. 43-8. Shortly after this article was published the majority of the service was sold. The remaining pieces were kept by the family in Poland until the 1960s when they were sold by Sotheby's London on 23rd May 1967, lots 29-50.
On the accession of Augustus III in 1733 Sulkowski was made Minister of State, Cabinet Minister, Privy Councillor and an Imperial Count. In spite of his friendship with the King, in February 1738 he was dismissed from Court (see R. Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1990, pp. 267-279). He was allowed to retain his titles and property, and the second delivery of the service (the first delivery took place in 1737) was made to the Japanese Palace three days after his dismissal. The list of items delivered (signed by Höroldt) records six sugar-boxes. This list was published by Hilde Rakebrandt, Meissener Tafelgeschirre des 18. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, 1958. A dish in the Schneider Collection (with Pressnummer 21, see Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 490) is presumably a supplement.
The service was first published and discussed by Julius Lessing, 'Das Porzellangeschirr Sulkowski' Kunstgewerbeblatt (Leipzig, 1888), Vol. 4, pp. 43-8. Shortly after this article was published the majority of the service was sold. The remaining pieces were kept by the family in Poland until the 1960s when they were sold by Sotheby's London on 23rd May 1967, lots 29-50.