A MEISSEN ARMORIAL HOT-MILK JUG AND COVER FROM THE SWAN SERVICE modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, the crisply moulded body with cornucopia spout and dolphin handle, the lower part with indianische Blumen, the domed cover with the Arms of Heinrich Graf Brühl and Anna von Kolowrat Krakowska beneath a snail finial (the handle and part of spout restored replacements, restoration to rim and finial, regilding to footrim and spout), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1738

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL HOT-MILK JUG AND COVER FROM THE SWAN SERVICE modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, the crisply moulded body with cornucopia spout and dolphin handle, the lower part with indianische Blumen, the domed cover with the Arms of Heinrich Graf Brühl and Anna von Kolowrat Krakowska beneath a snail finial (the handle and part of spout restored replacements, restoration to rim and finial, regilding to footrim and spout), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1738
17.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Otto Walcha, Meissner Porzellan, no. 94 for a similar example in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden also illustrated by Ingelore Menzhausen, Alt-Meissner Porzellan in Dresden, no. 99; a larger example sold in these Rooms, 28 November 1961, lot 149

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