Plate from the Swan Service for Heinrich count of Brühl
Porcelain, polychrome and gilded décor. Slightly fluted lip with shell ribs and wavy edge contour. In the well, in front of shell structures, two swans facing each other, swimming on the waves of a reed-fringed pond. Above them a heron in flight. The large Brühl-Kolowrat-Krakowský alliance coat of arms with flanking lions and three bouquets of Indian flowers and small scattered blossoms.
Heinrich, count von Brühl (1700-1763); in the possession of the descendants, Pförten Castle; an affiliation with the Pförten Swan Service holdings, looted in 1945, cannot be ruled out; [...]; Hampel Fine Art Munich, April 12, 2013, lot 1397.
"Christine von Brühl: Schwäne in Weiß und Gold, Geschichte einer Familie, München 2021, S. 250 ff.; Ulrich Pietsch, Schwanenservice - Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Leipzig, 2000; Vgl. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München, München, 1966, Nr. 510, S. 129;
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