Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 103
A Meissen dessert dish from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1746
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,147.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen dessert dish from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1746
Probably modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, painted with with a flower spray and hazelnuts, the wavy gilt-edged rim moulded with shells and pierced trellis panels interspersed with pierced flower sprays picked out in polychrome enamels, 24.2cm diam., crossed swords mark above a dot in underglaze-blue, impressed 21 (rim section restuck)
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. It 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.
A similar dessert dish from the service is in the Dresden porcelain collection, published in U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice (2000), no. 151.
