The cutlery handle has the traditional flask shape, which is additionally decorated on both sides with the greatly reduced swan relief, with the Brühl-Kolowrat-Krakowsky alliance coat of arms painted on the upper end, also on both sides. Without marks
Provenance
Heinrich Count Brühl (1700-1763); on loan from Count Brühl to the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts from 1920 (no. 1160); 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; [...]; further examples private collection, Italy (blade H. Levy, Dresden); Solingen, Klingenmuseum, (2 handles with later silver mountings of a spoon and a fork)
Literature / Source
Christine von Brühl: Schwäne in Weiß und Gold, Geschichte einer Familie, München, 2021; Ulrich Pietsch, Schwanenservice - Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Leipzig, 2000, S. 181, Nr. 63; Haedecke 1970, S.58, Abb. 5, 6; Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung
