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Large round platter from the Swan Service for Heinrich von Brühl
Lost Art-ID
606651
Artist
Kaendler, Johann Joachim
Birth
1706.06.15, Fischbach (Arnsdorf)
Death
1775.05.18, Meißen
Place of activity
Dresden, Meißen
Manufaktur
Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen
Formation
gegr. 1710
Title
Large round platter from the Swan Service for Heinrich von Brühl
Datierung
1738
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ceramics (porcelain) ; Overglaze enamel polychrome / Overglaze painting ; gilded
Diameter
41.90 cm
Description
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein. In the centre two swans and a heron amidst rushes, waves, fish and shells, far left a small hut, above a flying heron, on a spirally radiated shell base. In the centre the lip with the Brühl coat of arms with lion pendants and scattered sprinkles as well as sprigs of Indian flowers, within a moulded, gilded pronged wreath, (flat chip at the rim, slight wear of the gilding).
Provenance
Heinrich count of Brühl (1700-1763); in the possession of the descendants, Pförten castle; an belonging to the Pförten swan service holdings, looted in 1945, cannot be ruled out; [...]; Christie's, 4 June 2013, lot 24.
Literature / Source
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, Leipzig, 2000.
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Contact
Friedrich Leopold Graf von Brühl
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