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Lot 84
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN ARMORIAL BEAKER AND SAUCER FROM THE FOSCARI SERVICE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND GILDER'S THREE DOTS MARK TO BOTH
Closed15 July 2020
Price Realised
GBP 11,250
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Specialist note
This service may have been supplied to Francesco Foscari (1704-1790), who was the Venetian envoy to Pope Benedict XIV, Constantinople, Vienna and St. Petersburg. For further discussion of this service see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ed., Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-63, 2007, p. 225, no. 128.
A bowl from the service was sold at Bonhams, London, 2 July 2019, lot 45 and a saucer from the service was sold at Bonhams, London, 15 June 2016, lot 127. For further information see www.christies.com
A bowl from the service was sold at Bonhams, London, 2 July 2019, lot 45 and a saucer from the service was sold at Bonhams, London, 15 June 2016, lot 127. For further information see www.christies.com