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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CIRCULAR DISH FROM THE SWAN SERVICE
Circa 1737-41
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, moulded with two swans swimming in rough water among fish and shells and flanked by bulrushes, a heron wading with a fish in its beak and another in flight above, on a spiral shell-moulded ground, the border with scattered indianische Blumen and with the coat-of-arms of Heinrich Graf Brühl and his wife Maria Anna Franziska von Kollowrat-Krakowska beneath a gilt dentil rim (very slight blemish to rim, the rim re-gilt at a later date), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's .. and incised Z
12in. (30.5cm.) diam.
Circa 1737-41
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, moulded with two swans swimming in rough water among fish and shells and flanked by bulrushes, a heron wading with a fish in its beak and another in flight above, on a spiral shell-moulded ground, the border with scattered indianische Blumen and with the coat-of-arms of Heinrich Graf Brühl and his wife Maria Anna Franziska von Kollowrat-Krakowska beneath a gilt dentil rim (very slight blemish to rim, the rim re-gilt at a later date), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's .. and incised Z
12in. (30.5cm.) diam.