Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 48
A large Meissen armorial oval dish from the Hennicke service, circa 1746
3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,280 inc. premium
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Ghislaine Howard
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A large Meissen armorial oval dish from the Hennicke service, circa 1746
Painted with the arms of Count Johann Christian von Hennicke twice to the brown-edged rim, the centre with a circular medallion with a Kakiemon-style landscape and a wheat sheaf and scattered flower sprigs to the well and rim, 38.4cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (very minor rim chips and a few scattered spots of wear)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr Siegfried Ducret Collection, Zürich;
Rosmarie Schmidt-Ducret, sold Galerie Koller, Zürich, 24 September 2020, lot 1242
Johann Christian Hennicke (1681-1752) was raised to the nobility in 1728 by the Holy Roman Emperor. He was an influential Cabinet Minister under Count Brühl, and became deputy director of the Meissen factory in 1739. An armorial table service was originally ordered for him in 1739, before his elevation to the rank of Freiherr or Baron in 1741, and Graf or Count in 1745. Additions to the service were apparently made in 1741, as well as 1746, when an elaborate table centrepiece was modelled by J.J. Kaendler (the stand and basket of which are now in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, published by Johanna Lessmann, Porzellan Glanzstücke der Sammlung, 2006, p. 52), which, like the present lot, bears Hennicke's arms as Count. See Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, 2013, pp. 386ff., for a discussion of the service. The present lot may have been the stand for an oval tureen and cover (Weber, ill. 63) that appears to have the same arms (of Hennicke as Count) and so was likely delivered at the same time as the table centrepiece.
