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This auction has been annulled
This auction has been annulled
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Estimate:
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DKK
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30,000
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EUR
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4,027
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A buyer's premium and a buyer's fee will be added to the stated price.
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Description
Mennecy and Aucoc, France. Wedding gift for King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine. A set of 12 cream cups with lids. Produced by Mennecy, France, in soft porcelain. Modelled in spirals and painted with variegated flowers, some cups with engraved mark DV for Duc de Villeroy (patron of Mennecy) under the bottom, the brand used in the period c. 1740-1770. H. 8.5 cm. Includes a pair of trays/présentoirs. Produced by Aucoc, Paris, in gilt sterling silver (Vermil), each with space for six cups, stamped with the AA mark for André Aucoc (1887-1911) and with the French Minerva silver stamp for sterling silver 950, both engraved with Christian X and Alexandrine's common coat of arms containing both the Danish coat of arms and the coat of arms of the Duchy of Mecklenburg. Ø 27 cm. Total weight approx. 1514 g. Cups and trays in a matching custom-made case from A. Aucoc, upholstered in red leather with gilding, inside with red velour.
Signs of wear, patina, silver gilding with wear, some cups with small chips, one with repair, case is worn with a defective bottom.
Provenance: The set was given as a wedding gift by the Duke and Duchess of Orleans (Princess Marie's parents) to Christian X and Alexandrine of Denmark in 1898. It was inherited by their son Hereditary Prince Knud and Hereditary Princess Caroline Mathilde and afterwards by their children Princess Elisabeth and Prince Ingolf.
Literature: W.B. Honey. 'French Porcelain of the 18th Century', 1950. A cream cup in the same shape but not painted is reproduced on figure 34 and discussed on pp. 20-21. It belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Provenance: a bourgeois mansion.
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10/11/2019 20:29:00
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