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A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 1
A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 2
A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 3
A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 4
A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 5
A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740 image 6
Lot 57*

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2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Meissen écuelle and cover from the Swan service, circa 1740

Modelled by J.F. Eberlein and J.J. Kaendler, the deep oval shell-moulded form with a domed cover surmounted by a swan garlanded with flowers by three putti, both painted around the gilt-edged rims with scattered indianische Blumen, the cover with the arms of Brühl and Kolowrat-Krakowska on both sides, 21.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (one putto's head restored) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Marianne and Hans Krieger Collection

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1994), no. 79;
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 65;
U. Pietsch/C. Banz, Triumph der blauen Schwertern (2010), cat. no. 260

Exhibited:
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung, 14 November 1993-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museum der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung, 26 February 1994-30 April 1994;
Dresden, Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Porzllansammlung im Zwinger, Triumph der blauen Schwerter. Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710-1815, 8 May-29 August 2010

Other examples of this form are in the Dresden Porzellansammlung and in the Detroit Institute of Arts; see U. Pietsch, Schwanenservice Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl (2000), no. 20.

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There has been some damage and restoration to the modelled finial not listed in the catalogue

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