細節
PROBABLY MEISSEN, CIRCA 1750
William VIII (1682-1760), Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel 1751-1760, in silver breast-plate with green velvet lining, white frilled cravat, powdered curling wig, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Royal Polish Order of the White Eagle, a red velvet cloak over his left shoulder, a baton in his right hand
on porcelain
cartouche-shaped with feigned oval, 2 in. (52 mm.) high including cartouche
來源
Christie's, London, 27 March 1985, lot 281.

拍品專文

The sitter was the seventh son of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (see lot 128) and Maria Amalia of Courland. In 1717, he married Dorothea Wilhelmina of Saxe-Zeitz, with whom he had three children, including his successor, Frederick II (see the next lot).

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