A large table lamp from the Swan Service,
The main figure of Acis sitting on a dolphin together with a nereide, gazing into each other’s eyes, as he touches her shoulder, to obverse and reverse a young triton playing, the triton to the obverse encircles the lower body of the nymph with his arm, the other one holds a water lily in his left hand, Acis holds the central stem of the lamp with his left hand with its 4 branches and sockets, the group rising above a shell dish, stepped base with waterfall in relief, 3 gilt scaly volutes with gilt shells, 3 gilt sculptural cartouches with 2 shells and 1 parasol, within which colourfully painted floral stems, 4 sockets and drip guards in the form of shells with fine, wide gilt rims, height 50 cm, 1 branch with old restoration near the gilded sleeve, 1 branch forms a C-shaped curve; some restoration to 1 drip guard, Meissen, underglaze blue sword mark with dash mark and dot 1924–1934, model no. 245, former no. 143, painter no. 74, model by Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein 1739, for Heinrich Count Brühl (Ru)
Lit.: Schwanenservice, Meißener Porzellan for Heinrich Graf von Brühl, exh. cat. Dresden 2000, p. 166, ill. 40; p. 39, ill. 26; p. 95, ill. 70;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
22.04.2015 - 15:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 3,750.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 3,000.- to EUR 5,000.-
A large table lamp from the Swan Service,
The main figure of Acis sitting on a dolphin together with a nereide, gazing into each other’s eyes, as he touches her shoulder, to obverse and reverse a young triton playing, the triton to the obverse encircles the lower body of the nymph with his arm, the other one holds a water lily in his left hand, Acis holds the central stem of the lamp with his left hand with its 4 branches and sockets, the group rising above a shell dish, stepped base with waterfall in relief, 3 gilt scaly volutes with gilt shells, 3 gilt sculptural cartouches with 2 shells and 1 parasol, within which colourfully painted floral stems, 4 sockets and drip guards in the form of shells with fine, wide gilt rims, height 50 cm, 1 branch with old restoration near the gilded sleeve, 1 branch forms a C-shaped curve; some restoration to 1 drip guard, Meissen, underglaze blue sword mark with dash mark and dot 1924–1934, model no. 245, former no. 143, painter no. 74, model by Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein 1739, for Heinrich Count Brühl (Ru)
Lit.: Schwanenservice, Meißener Porzellan for Heinrich Graf von Brühl, exh. cat. Dresden 2000, p. 166, ill. 40; p. 39, ill. 26; p. 95, ill. 70;
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, Porcelain) |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 22.04.2015 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 11.04. - 22.04.2015 |
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