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A Meissen two-handled lozenge-shaped large tray from the Swan service
Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the H… 顯示更多 THE MEISSEN SWAN SERVICE The Swan service was made for Count Brühl (1700-1763), the Prime Minister of Saxony and director of the Meissen factory from 1733 to 1763. Brühl commissioned the service in 1737 on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Anna Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowska. The moulded decoration was carried out by J.J. Kändler with the assistance of J.F. Eberlein. It would appear to be the largest service produced in the 18th century and Rainer Rückert estimates its original size to have been between 2,200 and 2,400 pieces. Kändler began to work on the larger pieces for the service in the summer of 1737, when the work on the large armorial service for Count Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski was still not complete. As director of the factory, Brühl would have been more than aware of Sulkowski's commission, which at the time was the largest privately commissioned armorial service to date, and it is probable that Brühl intended to compete with Sulkowski, another of Augustus III's Cabinet Ministers. The service remained in the possession of the family until after the Second World War when it was dispersed.
A Meissen two-handled lozenge-shaped large tray from the Swan service

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 27

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A Meissen two-handled lozenge-shaped large tray from the Swan service
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 27
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, the centre crisply moulded with two swans swimming in rough water between clumps of bulrushes, a heron in flight above, on a radiating shell-moulded ground, with coral branch handles applied with flower-encrustation to the convex-concave border and moulded with radiating flutes and painted with scattered Indianischen Blumen and flower heads and centred at the top with the Brühl coat-of-arms within a waved gilt dentil and line rim (restored)
47 cm. wide
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Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,001. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

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See U. Pietsch, Schwanenservice, Leipzig, 2000, p. 154 ill. 21 for a similar tray.