Cup and saucer with the alliance arms of Edward Howard of Norfolk and Mary Blount

Cup and saucer with the alliance arms of Edward Howard of Norfolk and Mary Blount

BK-15292-A

Kop van beschilderd porselein. De kop is beschilderd met Höroldt-chinoiserieën aan weerszijden van het alliantiewapen van Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686-1777) en Mary Blount. De kop is gemerkt.

• mark: ‘F’
• mold mark
• factory mark

• porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
• porseleinmodelleur: Johann Martin Kittel, Meissen

c. 1733

porselein

height 4 cm x diameter 8 cm

Gift of S. Rosenberg, Amsterdam

gift 1939

Public domain

Commissioned by Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686-1777), London, c. 1733; by descent to Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1908-75), London;{Provenance reconstructed by the Saint Louis Art Museum.} his sale, London (Christie’s), 7 February 1938, no. 61, with the entire tea and coffee service, to the dealers Saemy Rosenberg, Amsterdam, and Armand Wittekind, London;{Den Blaauwen 2000, no. 105; at the sale the service consisted of a coffee pot, [two] teapots, a teapot stand, a rinsing bowl, seven teacups, eight two-handled cups and sixteen saucers.} by Rosenberg donated, with BK-15292-B, to the museum, 1939

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Jaarverslag van het Rijksmuseum (1939), p. 9.
• James B. Fischer Jr. 'A Meissen Part Tea and Coffee Service', Museum Monographs : Papers on objects in the collections of the St. Louis Art Museum 3 (1974), p. 27.

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