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Plateau ovale à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service aux Cygnes, vers 1740 A Meissen two-handled oval dish from the Swan Service, circa 1740 image 1
Plateau ovale à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service aux Cygnes, vers 1740 A Meissen two-handled oval dish from the Swan Service, circa 1740 image 2
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Plateau ovale à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service aux Cygnes, vers 1740

A Meissen two-handled oval dish from the Swan Service, circa 1740

30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

Sold for €38,400 inc. premium

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Plateau ovale à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du service aux Cygnes, vers 1740

A Meissen two-handled oval dish from the Swan Service, circa 1740


Modelled by J.F. Eberlein, moulded with swans swimming amidst bulrushes, a heron to the left and another in flight overhead, the moulded handles in the shape of bulrushes, the shell-moulded gilt-edged border painted with the arms of Brühl and Kolowrat-Krakowska and with scattered indianische Blumen, 39cm across handles, 28.5cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 27,

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A dish of a larger size is in the National Museum, Stockholm (inv.no. NMK 59/1947). Other examples of oval trays in different sizes are in the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne and the Ernst Schneider Collection in Schloss Lustheim, near Munich (illustrated in U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice - Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, 2000, p.155, no. 23). An unpainted version is in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.

Another example of the same dish was sold at Bonhams, London, 3 December 2024, lot 150.

See U. Pietsch, Schwanenservice, 2000, for a comprehensive discussion of the service, and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, "From Barlow to Büggel," in Keramos, 119 (1988): 54-68, for a discussion of the graphic sources.

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