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PROPERTY OF A LADY (LOTS 365-367)
THE SWAN SERVICE (LOTS 396-398)
The Swan service was made for Count Brühl (1700-1763), the Prime Minister of Saxony and director of the Meissen factory from 1733-63. Brühl commissioned the service in 1737 on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Anna Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowska. The molded decoration (a play on word Brühl, meaning 'watery') 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 (Meissen Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 118) estimates its original size to have been between 2,200 and 2,400 pieces. Kändler began work on the larger pieces for the service in the summer of 1737, when work on the large armorial service for Graf 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. The service remained in the possession of the family until after the Second World War.
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN BOWLS FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'
CIRCA 1737-1741, EACH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARK AND DREHER'S // AND :: TO THE FOOTRIM, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND J.F. EBERLEIN
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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN BOWLS FROM THE 'SWAN SERVICE'
CIRCA 1737-1741, EACH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARK AND DREHER'S // AND :: TO THE FOOTRIM, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND J.F. EBERLEIN
Each finely molded with swans and herons either swimming, perched among or flying above reeds and water, the border the Brühl coat-of-arms among indianische Blumen, within an undulating gilt enriched rim
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) diameter (2)
CIRCA 1737-1741, EACH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARK AND DREHER'S // AND :: TO THE FOOTRIM, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND J.F. EBERLEIN
Each finely molded with swans and herons either swimming, perched among or flying above reeds and water, the border the Brühl coat-of-arms among indianische Blumen, within an undulating gilt enriched rim
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) diameter (2)
來源
Heinrich Count von Brühl (1700-1763), and thence by descent.
Acquired from the Antique Porcelain Co., New York, approximately 1950.
Acquired from the Antique Porcelain Co., New York, approximately 1950.
榮譽呈獻
Anne Igelbrink
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