拍品 369
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A MEISSEN LARGE SERVING SPOON FROM THE SWAN SERVICE, CIRCA 1738 |

估價
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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描述

  • length 12 7/8 in.; 32.8 cm
(Vorlegelöffel) modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, the bowl of the spoon in low relief with two swimming swans among bulrushes with a crane in flight above, upon a shell molded ground, the underside of the handle painted with the Brühl and Kolowrat-Krakowska arms, with scattered flower sprigs and a gilt border to the edge

來源

Sotheby's, London, November 28th, 1961, lot 144 
The Property of David Sach, Esq., Sotheby's, London, March 10, 1970, lot 42

Condition

The piece is intact and in overall good appearance. There is a minute flat shallow chip to the edge of the handle. There are some minute specks of glaze wear or kiln speckling to the reverse side.
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拍品資料及來源

In September 1738 Kändler wrote in his work records: '1 großen Vorlege Löffel für Ihro Exc. de Brühl zu dero Tafelservice, welcher ebenfalls in Gestalt einer gewachsenen Muschel, wo Schwäne, Fischreiher und alles was auf den Tellern darinnen befindl.', [1 large serving spoon for his excellency Count Brühl whose table service also has the same shapes of a large shell, upon which is found swans, herons, and everything that’s on the plates.], referenced in Ulrich Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice - Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Leipzig, 2000, p. 168.

Few large serving spoons from the Swan service appear to have survived. Similar examples are found in the Dresden Porzellansammlung (Inv. no. P.E. 1424, published by Pietsch, ibid, pp. 167-168, no. 42); the Museum of Applied Arts in Poznań (Inv. no. MNP Rz 1737) and the National Museum in Warsaw (Inv. no. SZC 3120.)

A smaller spoon (20 cm long) from the Jörg Nelte Collection was sold at Christie's, London, October 12, 1995, lot 57, formerly sold, Christie's, Geneva, November 12, 1984, lot 82.

Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.