A MEISSEN ARMORIAL SHALLOW BOWL FROM THE SWAN SERVICE modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, moulded with two swans swimming in rough water among shells and fish beside two clumps of bulrushes and a heron with a fish in its beak, another in flight above, the whole surface with spirally fluted shell moulding, the border with a Coat-of-Arms and scattered indianische Blumen within a shaped rim enriched with gilding (very slight rubbing to gilt rim), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1737

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL SHALLOW BOWL FROM THE SWAN SERVICE modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, moulded with two swans swimming in rough water among shells and fish beside two clumps of bulrushes and a heron with a fish in its beak, another in flight above, the whole surface with spirally fluted shell moulding, the border with a Coat-of-Arms and scattered indianische Blumen within a shaped rim enriched with gilding (very slight rubbing to gilt rim), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1737
24.5cm. diam.

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The Arms are those of Heinrich, Count von Brühl (1700-1763), Director of the Meissen factory from 1735-63 and his wife Franziska von Kolowrat Krakowska whom he married in 1737

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