A MEISSEN TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'

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A MEISSEN TUREEN AND COVER FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND INCISED MARKS, FROM THE MODEL OF CIRCA 1738 BY J.J. KAENDLER AND J.F. EBERLEIN

The tureen and cover moulded as shells, the cover with a figure of Galatea in triumph with attendant putti, the tureen handles formed as nereids trailing vines, the sides moulded with swans flanking shell cartouches and a garland of flowers, raised on two shell scroll feet with putti terminals and two feet formed as entwined dolphins--21½in. (54.5cm.) high, 16in. (40.6cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Antique Porcelain in Color: Meissen, New York, 1971, pp. 65-66 for a discussion of the 'Swan Service' commissioned in honour of the marriage of Heinrich Graf von Bruhl to Grafin Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowska; also Robert E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, New York, 1984, plate 22 for the illustration of another later pull similar to the present example