Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
Property formerly in the von Pannwitz Collection
Lot 95
A rare Meissen cloche (Wärmeglocke) from the 'Brühlsche Allerlei' service, circa 1745
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,570 inc. premium
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Sophie von der Goltz
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
A rare Meissen cloche (Wärmeglocke) from the 'Brühlsche Allerlei' service, circa 1745
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein, of high domed from with a wavy gilt-edged rim moulded with scrollwork-edged panels of basketwork and trellis with shells and flower sprigs embellished in polychrome enamels, below a large painted pomegranate, flower spray and scattered flowers, surmounted by a rose finial, 31.5cm across; 16cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to inside (restuck, traces of discoloured old overpainting)
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;
Catalina von Pannwitz Collection, 'De Hartekamp', Heemstede, The Netherlands
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.
The service included cloches (Wärmeglocken) in five different sizes, modelled mostly by Eberlein in 1745, each surmounted by a different vegetable, fruit or flower finial (the present lot is most likely the second size; see Lessmann, p. 111 and cat. no. 146). Another, of the third size, is in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt (U. Pietsch, Schwanenservice (2000), cat. no 146). A third, slighly larger than the present lot, is illustrated by C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, II (2018), ill. 445a.
