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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED OVAL DISH FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'

1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27

Details
A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED OVAL DISH FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'
1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein with gilt edged bulrush handles, the central shell-shaped panel moulded with water, swans, bulrushes and herons, the radiating shell-moulded border with indianische Blumen, centred at the top by the coat-of-arms, shaped gilt band rim (very minor slight chip to underside of one leaf on one handle)
13¾ in. (35 cm.) wide
Provenance
Heinrich Count von Brühl (1700-1763), and thence by descent
A Distinguished Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, sale Christie's, London, 8th July 2002, lot 36
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Lot Essay

Another example is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, et al., Schwanen Service, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl Exhibition Catalogue (Leipzig, 2000), p. 155, no. 23, where other examples are cited.

An oval dish of similar size was sold in these Rooms on 1st March 1993, lot 53 and another from the Nyffeler Collection was sold in these Rooms on 9th June 1986, lot 119.

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