A Meissen armorial waste bowl from Foscari service, circa 1740Decorated with the coat-of-arms supported by putti against a superbly painted continuous Kauffahrtei scene depicting merchants and their wares at a quayside and ships in a harbour, a puce camaieu landscape scene within circular double line borders to the interior, gilt foliate scrollwork border to the inside rim, gilt band to the footrim, 16.7cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, four gilt dots and impressed Dreher's mark of two circles for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel (ground shallow chip to rim)注脚Provenance:With J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York;Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, Baltimore, Maryland, sold Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1989, lot 109;With Angela von Wallwitz, LondonLiterature:M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 227, fig. 10-39Exhibited:Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters Art Gallery, 1954-56;New York, The Bard Graduate Center, 'Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63', 15 November 2007 to 10 February 2008, cat. no. 59The Foscari family provided the longest-serving Doge in the history of Venice, Francesco Foscari, who was Doge from 1423 until he was forced to abdicate in 1458. This service may have been supplied to a later Francesco Foscari (1704-1790), a historian, lawyer and diplomat, who was envoy to Pope Benedict XIV (also the recipient of a Meissen service), Constantinople, Vienna and St. Petersburg. Francesco Foscari was also the owner of the palace in which Crown Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony resided during his visit to Venice in late 1739. Although Foscari was not the prince's host, the size of the latter's entourage necessitated the use of his palace, and this service may have been given as a mark of gratitude (M. Cassidy-Geiger, Princes and Porcelain on the Grand Tour of Italy, in Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 225, n. 128).A saucer from the service was sold in these Rooms, 15 June 2016; lot 127, a teabowl from the service was sold from the Liane Richards Collection, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 13 April 2016, lot 1; and a cup and two saucers was in the Hoffmeister Collection, Bonhams London, 25 November 2009, lot 88.