A pair of Meissen porcelain confit bowls from the dinner service for Count Heinrich von Brühl
"Brühl'scher Durchbruch" model painted with a lemon, cherries, an apple, summer flowers and wild berries. With some scattered flowers over firing flaws. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's numbers 21 and 35. With minor wear. D both 26.4 cm.
Johann Friedrich Eberlein, 1746.
The "Brühlsche Allerlei" was one of the most splendid dinner services ever produced by the Meissen manufactory. The name goes back to the person who ordered it, Count Heinrich Brühl (1700 - 1763), who was Saxon prime minister and chief inspector of the porcelain manufactory. He kept the manufactory busy working on the order for his own service for many years, until his death in 1742. The service was comparable in scope and ambition to the better-known Swan Service, comprising over 2,000 pieces including a dinner, dessert and coffee service. Most of the models can be attributed to Johann Friedrich Eberlein and Johann Gottlieb Ehder, whose working records contain numerous references to the service.
Provenance
Private collection, Palatinate.
Literature
For more on the history of this service see Lessmann, Das Brühlsche Allerlei ein Service für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, in: cat. Schwanenservice, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Berlin/Leipzig 2000, p. 106 - 120.
Cf. also Bodinek, Ein Meissener Porzellanservice für den Grafen, Das Brühl'sche Allerlei, in: Keramos 235/236/2017. The "Konfektschale" model from 1746 discussed on p. 26.