The Meissen 'Brühl’sche Allerlei' Service: An Important Portion of the Meissen Service made for Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-63), Circa 1742-46

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February 2, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

each piece finely painted with studies of various vegetables and fruit, berries, nuts and with large sprays of flowers and smaller sprigs, the borders with elaborately molded panels of trellis and basketwork reserving shells with trailing flower sprays coloured in enamels, comprising:

3 large circular dishes, 17 1/4 in., 44 cm diam.;

7 large circular dishes, 15 3/8 in., 39 cm diam.;

1 circular dish, 13 1/2 in., 34.3 cm diam.;

2 large oval dishes, 16 1/4 in. 41.4 cm wide;

1 large oval dish, 15 3/4 in., 40 cm wide;

1 large oval dish, 15 1/2 in., 39.4 cm wide;

41 dinner plates, 10 3/8 in. diam.;

6 circular shallow bowls, 10 in., 24.5 cm diam.;

4 wine coolers, 6 3/4 in., 17.2 cm high,

and 2 bottle holders, Flaschenständer, 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm high,

together with 2 basket-weave bottle holders, 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm high, and 1 19^th century dinner plate, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, seven plates, two shallow bowls and two 17 1/4 in. diam. dishes with C. mark in dark puce,

17 1/4 in. diam. dishes impressed 22, incised 5, 15 3/8 in. diam. dishes impressed 22, incised 4 or impressed 21/20 and incised ////, 13 1/2 in. diam. dish, impressed 22, incised 3,

plates and shallow bowls impressed numerals 20, 21, 22,

1 large dish impressed numeral 54, another impressed 27,

two coolers incised R.,

bottler holders impressed numeral 26,

one basket-weave bottle holder Incised numeral 34. 71 pieces.

From the service commissioned by Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-63), Director of the Meissen factory, in 1742;

Sotheby’s London, July 8, 1997, lot 57 (part);

Partridge Fine Arts PLC, London, May 2, 2000

Johanna Lessmann, ‘Das "Brühlsche Allerlei" Ein Service für Heinrich Graf von Brühl’, in Ulrich Pietsch (ed.), Schwwanenservice, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, 2000, pp. 106-123, illustrated on pp. 108-109;

Thomas Miltschus, Das Brühlsche Allerlei - Ein Tafelservice der Königlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen der 1740er Jahre, Master Thesis, Leipzig University 2004;

Claudia Bodinek, 'Ein Meissener Porzellanservice für den Grafen - Das Brühl'sche Allerlei' in Keramos 235/236, 2017, pp. 4-135, illustrated on pp. 93-96, 113-115, 117, 120-121 and 125.

Related Literature

Margit Bauer, Deutsche Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 111, no. 135;

Ralph Collier, Selections from the Campbell Museum Collection, 1978, no. 49;

Armin B. Allen, Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, exh. cat., Orlando Museum of Art, 1988-1989, Orlando 1988, p. 98, no. 53;

Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London 2008, pp. 462-465, no. 206;

Claudia Bodinek, 'Ein Tafelservice für den Grafen, Das Brühlsche Allerlei reviewed' in Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-1763) Ein sächsischer Mäzen in Europa, 2017 pp. 88-97.