A unique Meissen porcelain dessert plate with moulded fruit
A unique Meissen porcelain dessert plate with moulded fruit
Rare, unidentified pierced model with naturalistically painted relief appliques modelled as fruit and leaves. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 22. A rim chip, some of the stems and foliage restored. H 10.5, diameter 26.5 cm.
Around 1746.
It could be that this plate model, as well as the design of the dinner and dessert service with Brühl style pierced mouldings, can be attributed to Johann Friedrich Eberlein. In 1746, Johann Joachim Kaendler sculpted numerous flowers and vegetables to decorate Brühl's table. The trompe l'oeil plate may have been created in this context, perhaps as a collaboration between the two sculptors.
Provenance
Private ownership.
Literature
Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 706, for a dessert plate with "Brühl'sche Durchbruch" in the Bavarian National Museum, inv. no. ker 1561, formerly from the Schneider collection.
See also Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Berlin 2000, cat. no. 152.
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A unique Meissen porcelain dessert plate with moulded fruit
Rare, unidentified pierced model with naturalistically painted relief appliques modelled as fruit and leaves. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 22. A rim chip, some of the stems and foliage restored. H 10.5, diameter 26.5 cm.
Around 1746.
It could be that this plate model, as well as the design of the dinner and dessert service with Brühl style pierced mouldings, can be attributed to Johann Friedrich Eberlein. In 1746, Johann Joachim Kaendler sculpted numerous flowers and vegetables to decorate Brühl's table. The trompe l'oeil plate may have been created in this context, perhaps as a collaboration between the two sculptors.
Provenance
Private ownership.
Literature
Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 706, for a dessert plate with "Brühl'sche Durchbruch" in the Bavarian National Museum, inv. no. ker 1561, formerly from the Schneider collection.
See also Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Berlin 2000, cat. no. 152.
