Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 63
A Meissen plate from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1746
3 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £896 inc. premium
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A Meissen plate from the "Brühl'sche Allerlei" service, circa 1746
Modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein with a pierced rim with alternating panels of trellis and flowers, the latter finely painted in enamels, the well painted with a radish and a turnip and two flower sprays, gilt-edged rim, 26.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 21 (small restuck section to rim)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-1763);
The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, acquired in 1979;
Sold from the above in these Rooms, part III, 24 November 2010, lot 72
Literature:
Hoffmeister, D. Meissen Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999, vol. I, no. 226
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
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 in Johanna Lessmann, "Das 'Brühlsche Allerlei' Ein Service für Heinrich Graf von Brühl," in U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice, 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.
Eberlein's work report for September 1746 notes: "Einen runden Teller mit dem Gräffl. Brühlischen Dessein zum durchbrechen, zur Gräffl. Brühlischen Conditorey [a circular plate with Count Brühl's design for piercing, to Count Brühl's Confectionary]" (quoted by Lessmann, op.cit, p. 208). One hundred and forty-four such pierced plates from the dessert service were recorded in the inventory of the service after Brühl's death (Lessmann 2000, p. 107). Another dessert place from the service was sold in these Rooms from the Hoffmeister Collection (no. 225), 26 May 2010, lot 64.
