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Glaucus with confectionery bowl from the Swan Service for Heinrich von Brühl

Tirtone centrepiece

Lost Art-ID

623641

Tafelaufsatz, Tritone; Dresdener Kriegsverlust aus dem Besitz der Familie Graf von Brühl.

Artist / Creator

Kaendler, Johann Joachim

Birth

1706.06.15, Fischbach (Arnsdorf)

Death

1775.05.18, Meißen

Place of activity

Dresden, Meißen

Manufaktur

Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen

Formation

gegr. 1710

Title

Glaucus with confectionery bowl from the Swan Service for Heinrich von Brühl

Additional title

Tirtone centrepiece

Dating

1738/1739

Object type

Vessel

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Material / Technique

Ceramics (Porcelain) ; Enamel paint ; Metal paint gold / Enamel painting

Height

44.50 cm

Width

34.00 cm

Inventory number

Leihgaben Nr. 778.

Description

The fish-tailed male figure wears an openwork shell basket with a border of baroque ribbonwork enriched with gilding with sparse kakiemon flowers; his hair, wings, spine and tail are in grey and pale iron red; damage to both arms, fish tail and basket. Sword's mark, mould number 233, 48, 126

Provenance

Heinrich Count Brühl (1700-1763); on loan from Count Brühl to the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts from 1907 (no. 778); relocated from the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts to Reichstädt Castle in Saxony due to the war; lost since 1945; it cannot be ruled out that it is part of the objects looted from the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts in 1945; [...]; Christie's London 30.06.1980, no. 231; Private collection Zurich.

Literature / Source

Christine von Brühl: Schwäne in Weiß und Gold, Geschichte einer Familie, München 2021, S. 250 ff.; U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice (2000), S. 96-99, S. 101-102 und S. 46, Abb. 32, S. 179, Nr. 60, S. 92 Abb. 68; Hoffmann 1932, S. 401, Abb. 433; Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung

Abbildung sh. | illustration cf.:

Carl Albiker: Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin 1935, Abbildung 269

Published since

10.10.2024

Contact

Friedrich Leopold Graf von Brühl

E-Mail

graf.von.bruehl@t-online.de

Contact

Friedrich von Brühl

Phone

+41 78 875 5293

E-Mail

friedrich.bruehl@grunbuhel.com