Bowl from the Swan Service for Heinrich von Brühl
Porcelain, coloured onglaze decoration, gilding. Sharply modelled shell relief and depictions of animals: two swimming swans, a heron on the left in the reeds and a flying heron above. On the lip small Indian flowers, three branch motifs and on top the off-centred alliance coat of arms Brühl-Kolowrat-Krakovský. Blue swors mark, incised III, unidentified former mark four concentrically arranged triangles (recessed cross).
Heinrich, count of Brühl (1700-1763); in the possession of the descendants, Pförten Palace; a provenance in the Pförten swan service holdings, looted in 1945, cannot be ruled out; [...]; Kunsthandel Röbbig, Munich; Westphalian private collection, since 1995; Lempertz Nov. 18, 2022, lot 1051.
Christine von Brühl: Schwäne in Weiß und Gold, Geschichte einer Familie, München 2021, S. 250 ff.
Ulrich Pietsch (Hrsg.) Schwanenservice - Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl (2000).