Property from the Collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller
A Meissen monteith from the 'Swan' Service, circa 1740-41 (Gläserkühler)
Auction Closed
May 22, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, the oval body moulded in low relief with spirally radiating shellwork, and applied on either side in the centre with a gilt rocaille cartouche painted with the Brühl and Kolowrat-Krakowska arms, affixed on either end with a half-bust nymph suspending on either side a garland of flowerheads, fruit, crayfish and shells, the rim with upright gilt scallop shells modelled with cascades of water serving as lugs, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, indistinct impressed numerals 25 (?)
Width 40 cm., 15 3/4 in.
This lot is offered following a settlement agreement between the heir of Friedrich-Joseph Graf von Brühl (1875 -1949) and the current owners.
From the service commissioned by Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-63);
Thence by descent in the von Brühl family at Schloss Pförten;
Possibly among the pieces from the service lost in 1945 from Schloss Pförten;
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1966, lot 80;
With The Antique Company of New York, Inc., November 1969;
The Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, offered Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 2019, lot 356 (part);
This lot is now being offered following a settlement agreement between the heir of Friedrich-Joseph Graf von Brühl (1875 -1949) and the current owners.
Ulrich Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, ex. cat., Berlin, 2000, p. 169.
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