A MEISSEN ARMORIAL FLASCHENHALTER FROM THE SWAN SERVICE en suite with the preceding lot modelled by J. J. Kändler and J. F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, of flattened oval section, each side painted with the Coat-of-Arms within moulded rococo scroll cartouches surmounted by shells, moulded with two swans and two herons, one with a fish in its beak, swimming and wading through rough water on a ground of shell moulding below a broad pierced rim with scrolls and flowerheads, the undulating rim with a broad gilt band, the spreading foot moulded with flutes and painted with scattered indianische Blumen within a gilt border and footrim (one side broken in two places and repaired and with associated repaired chips, the other side with two cracks, slight rubbing to gilding), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 26, 1737-41
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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL FLASCHENHALTER FROM THE SWAN SERVICE en suite with the preceding lot modelled by J. J. Kändler and J. F. Eberlein for Count Brühl, of flattened oval section, each side painted with the Coat-of-Arms within moulded rococo scroll cartouches surmounted by shells, moulded with two swans and two herons, one with a fish in its beak, swimming and wading through rough water on a ground of shell moulding below a broad pierced rim with scrolls and flowerheads, the undulating rim with a broad gilt band, the spreading foot moulded with flutes and painted with scattered indianische Blumen within a gilt border and footrim (one side broken in two places and repaired and with associated repaired chips, the other side with two cracks, slight rubbing to gilding), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 26, 1737-41
23cm. wide
Lot Essay
Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 3 July 1989, lot 207