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Lot 640 Dα

A Meissen porcelain beaker with the coat of arms of Count Heinrich von Brühl

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 12.500 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain beaker with the coat of arms of Count Heinrich von Brühl

Tapering beaker with slightly flared rim and basal ring. The front painted with the large comital coat of arms flanked by female allegories of Justitia and Prudentia. The reverse with scattered indianische blumen, branch and rice straw motifs. The mass of the base contaminated by some small stones. The inner rim with a narrow gilt lace border. Blue crossed swords mark. A short vertical crack and several chips to the lower edge of the lip, the base with glaze cracks. H 13.2, D 10.9 cm.
Circa 1737.

This beaker was probably delivered in connection with one of the first substantial deliveries of porcelain to Heinrich von Brühl, who was raised to the rank of an imperial count on 27th May 1737. Since the model is plainly potted and bears no sculpted appliques, it is not mentioned in Kaendler's workshop records, as he only worked on the more sumptuously modelled designs. The coat of arms is also found on the only two test plates for the Swan Service known to date, both of which have been published by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger. It is interesting to note that neither the beaker nor the test plates bear the arms of alliance seen on the Swan Service, which was produced in large quantities at around the same time, although Count Brühl married Countess Maria Anna Franziska Kolowrat-Krakowska on 29th April 1734. The bells of the carillion produced in around 1740 and purchased by the Grand Ducal Library in Weimar, the forms of which are similar to that of this beaker, are also decorated with the couple's arms of alliance. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam houses a snuff box with the count's coat of arms painted upon a large bracket on its lid (inv. no. R.B.K. 17456).

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 111.
For the test plates from the Swan Service, cf.: Kunze-Köllensperger, Neues zum Schwanenservice: Relief - Probeteller - Wappen, in: Keramos 241/242/2018, p. 53 ff.
Cf. also cat. Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Leipzig 2000, no. 172 f.