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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
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
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