A MEISSEN ARMORIAL LARGE DISH FROM THE SWAN SERVICE

CIRCA 1738, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARKS OF A QUARTERED CIRCLE AND / TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL LARGE DISH FROM THE SWAN SERVICE
CIRCA 1738, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARKS OF A QUARTERED CIRCLE AND / TO FOOTRIM
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, the centre with two swans and a heron among bulrushes, waves, fish and shells, a small hut to the far left, with a heron in flight above, against a spirally-radiating shell-moulded ground, the border centred with the Brühl coat-of-arms with lion supporters and with scattered sprays and sprigs of indianische Blumen, within a shaped gilt-dentil rim (flat chip to rim at 3.30 o'clock, minor wear to gilding)
16½ in. (41.9 cm.) wide

Provenance

Heinrich Count Brühl, Schloss Pförten.

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Lot Essay

See the similar dish illustrated by Walter Fellman et al., Schwanen service, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Exhibition Catalogue, Dresden, 2000, p. 159, no. 29. Another from the Jörge Nelte Collection was sold in these Rooms on 12 October 1995, lot 58 and another large example was sold by Sotheby's London on 8 June 1995, lot 81.

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