A wall sconce from the "Swan Service",
at the centre a seated figure of Venus with Cupid on a shell console joined to a water lily, in the background purple drapery, Cupid holding on to the top left, flanked by large reeds, Venus flanked by swans, with porcelain sockets decorated with shellwork in their beaks, below the swans each with a polychrome and gilt painted bouquet of water lilies, coral, shells, and small reeds, surmounted by an open work shell diadem, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, height: 54 cm, width: 31 cm, shell diadem detachable;
Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords 2nd half 19th cent., model no. 348, former no. 137, top 2nd half 19th cent., model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein ca. 1742 for Graf Brühl (Ru)
Lit.: Schwanenservice, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl,
exhibition catalogue Dresden 2000, p 41, ill. 27, p 84, ill. 67;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
26.04.2017 - 15:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 5,000.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 4,000.- to EUR 5,000.-
A wall sconce from the "Swan Service",
at the centre a seated figure of Venus with Cupid on a shell console joined to a water lily, in the background purple drapery, Cupid holding on to the top left, flanked by large reeds, Venus flanked by swans, with porcelain sockets decorated with shellwork in their beaks, below the swans each with a polychrome and gilt painted bouquet of water lilies, coral, shells, and small reeds, surmounted by an open work shell diadem, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, height: 54 cm, width: 31 cm, shell diadem detachable;
Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords 2nd half 19th cent., model no. 348, former no. 137, top 2nd half 19th cent., model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein ca. 1742 for Graf Brühl (Ru)
Lit.: Schwanenservice, Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl,
exhibition catalogue Dresden 2000, p 41, ill. 27, p 84, ill. 67;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Works of Art - Furniture, Sculptures, Glass and Porcelain |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.04.2017 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 15.04. - 26.04.2017 |
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