Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 165
A Meissen soup plate from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1742-45
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,312.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen soup plate from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1742-45
The wavy gilt-edged rim moulded with scrollwork-edged panels of basketwork and trellis with shells and flower sprigs embellished in polychrome enamels, the well painted with vegetables and scattered flowers, 25.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 21 (very minor wear)
Footnotes
Provenance:
From the service commissioned by Heinrich Graf von Brühl in 1742 and listed at his death in 1763 in his Dresden palace in the Augustusstrasse
The 'Brühlsche Allerlei' service was one of the most magnificent table services made at the Meissen manufactory and is comparable in scale and ambition to the better-known Swan Service. The service has been thoroughly discussed by Johanna Lessmann, Das "Brühlsche Allerlei" Ein Service für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, in U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwwanenservice (2000), pp. 106-123. The service originally comprised over 2000 pieces, including dinner, dessert and coffee services, and at Brühl's death in 1763, still included 145 soup plates and 269 dinner plates. Most of the modelling work on the service appears to have been done by J.F. Eberlein and J.G. Ehder, whose work records include numerous references to the service. Two large quantities from the service were sold by Sotheby's London, 8 July 1997, lot 57; and by Sotheby's New York, 21 November 2014, lot 1304.
