Meissen - Lot 147

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Meissen - Lot 147
Meissen Round porcelain dish decorated in relief with knotted flowering branches named Gotzkowsky-relief and polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers and a butterfly and on the wing of the coat of arms Pâris de Montmartel et Béthune in two shields supported by lions standing under a count's crown. Marked: crossed swords in blue and mark in hollow: 20. 18th century, circa 1746. D. 28 cm. Provenance: Given by Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony to Jean Pâris de Montmartel, probably in 1746. The service is mentioned in 1766 in an inventory of the property of Pâris de Montmartel. Jean Pâris de Montmartel (1690-1766), a wealthy and influential banker at the Court of Louis XV, Keeper of the Royal Treasury and State Councillor, played a decisive role in Louis XV's choice of Marie Josephe de Saxe to become the new wife of the Dauphin, after the death in 1746 of Marie-Thérèse of Spain, the previous Dauphin. On February 16, 1746, Jean Pâris de Montmartel married Marie Armande de Béthune. Selma Schwartz has shown that this porcelain service was a gift from the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Augustus III, to Montmartel in order to obtain his support for the choice of the new Dauphine (Selma Schwartz, "Gifts of Meissen Porcelain to the French Court, 1728-50" Fragile Diplomacy, 2007, p. 147-148). Another dish from the service is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, fifteen plates and seventeen soup plates are in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin.
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