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A group of eight armorial Chinese Export dessert dishes, Qing dynasty, 1790's.

Estimate
6 000 - 8 000 SEK
536 - 715 EUR
544 - 726 USD
Hammer price
10 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A group of eight armorial Chinese Export dessert dishes, Qing dynasty, 1790's.

Decorated in blue enamel and godl around the rim, central motif with the Swedish Coat of Arms of the Wachtmeister family. Diameter 19.8 cm.

Damages, restored.

Provenance

From a dinner service commissioned by Claes Adam Wachtmeister (1755-1828), the dinner service is listed in his estate inventory of 1828 as being in his appartment in Stockholm, thence by descent within the family up until now.

More information

The decoration that surrounds the coat of arms is the order of the sword, it helps us date the service to some where between 1794 when recieves the title of Commandor of the large cross of the Order of the Sword. And before he recieves the Order of the Seraphim 1809.