Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 74*
A very rare Meissen stand from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1738
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,012.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A very rare Meissen stand from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1738
Possibly modelled by J.F. Eberlein, of rectangular form with indented corners, the sides moulded with basketwork, applied on the front and back with a crowned cartouche painted with the arms of Sulkowski and Stein zu Jettingen, all raised on four gilt-edged scroll feet with palmettes, the surface painted with scattered sprigs of indianische Blumen, 49.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some regilding, minor damage)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Graf Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski (1695-1762);
Paul Schnyder von Wartensee Collection, Lucerne;
Anon. sale, Sothebys Zurich, 21 November 1990, lot 85;
U.S. Private Collection
This form may be the second referred to in an entry of J.F. Eberlein's work records for December 1737: "Zwey neue Tisch Bletter eines oval, das andere viereckigt die ecken verbrochen, von Doone [Ton] gemacht" [Two new table leaves one oval, the other rectangular with broken corners, made from clay] (AA I Ab 09, fol. 270 a-b {Monatsrapporte, 1737}).
This form has been considered a stand for a tureen (see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 488, pl. XVIII, for a tureen and cover on a smaller stand of similar form). Another possibility is that this stand belongs to the '64 Stück Confect-Aufsatzstücken, wozu 160 kleine Figurgen und 48 kleine Blumen Bouquettes' [64 dessert pieces, to which 160 small figures and 48 small flower bouquets] among the additional pieces for the service ordered in July 1737 (quoted by H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirr des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), pp. 14-15).
