CIRCA 1738, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S E

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL DISH FROM THE VON MÜNNICH SERVICE
CIRCA 1738, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S E
The central quartered arms surrounded by the Collar and Badge of the Order of St. Andrew, against drapery surmounted by a coronet and flanked by monogramed shields, flags and marshal trophies, above a blue panel inscribed OBSEQUID ET CANDORE in gold against a diaper panel with tasselled swags below, surrounded by indianische Blumen within a Sulkowsky ozier-moulded border (minute blemish to rim at 11 o'clock, some slight retouching to gilding, very slight wear to drapery)
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 2nd March 1992, lot 130
Jörg Nelte Collection, sale Christie's London, 12 October 1995, lot 54

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of the arms and family and two pieces from the service, see Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, pp. 528-529, no. 346 (offered by Bonhams, London, 25th November 2009, lot 77) and no. 347.

Burchard Christoph Graf von Münnich (1683-1767) entered the service of Czar Peter The Great of Russia in 1721, and in 1728 (in the reign of Peter II) he was created Count and General of the Infantry. He rose further to ultimately become Field Marshal in 1732 (in Czarina Anna Ivanovna's reign). After the coup of 1741 he was exiled to Siberia by Czarina Elizabeth, returning 20 years later.

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