A MEISSEN SALT FROM THE SWAN SERVICE, the shell-moulded bowl with indianische Blumen and with the central Arms supported by a naked putto astride a dolphin with grey head and red lips and tail, its body incised with scales, on a square base (shell broken across and repaired, some minor restoration near head and hand), 1737-41

A MEISSEN SALT FROM THE SWAN SERVICE, the shell-moulded bowl with indianische Blumen and with the central Arms supported by a naked putto astride a dolphin with grey head and red lips and tail, its body incised with scales, on a square base (shell broken across and repaired, some minor restoration near head and hand), 1737-41

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A MEISSEN SALT FROM THE SWAN SERVICE, the shell-moulded bowl with indianische Blumen and with the central Arms supported by a naked putto astride a dolphin with grey head and red lips and tail, its body incised with scales, on a square base (shell broken across and repaired, some minor restoration near head and hand), 1737-41
14.5cm. high

Lot Essay

The Arms are those of Count Heinrich Graf Brühl and his wife Anna von Kolowrat Krakowska; this model appears to be unrecorded in the literature

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