Candlestick

1739

Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Artist Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Decorative Arts, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Candlestick

Artwork Date 1739

Makers Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Artist) German, 1696-1749 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710

Medium Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

Dimensions Overall: 9 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (24.1 × 15.9 × 15.9 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.166.1

Markings

Marks Marks, on underside, in underglaze blue: [crossed swords; Meissen factory mark] Marks, impressed on inside of foot ring: [four crosses within circles; former's mark] Marks, impressed on inside of foot ring, opposite: 46

Provenance

Count Heinrich von Brühl (Dresden, Germany);
(H.E. Backer, Rome, Italy);
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA);
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken Des 18. Jahrhunderts: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd. 3. Berlin, 1912, no. 32, p. 62 (ill.).

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd. 3. Braunschweig, 1956, no. 68, p. 119 (ill.).

Albiker, C. Die Meissner Porzellantiere Im IM 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1959, no. 277, pl. LXIX.

Bulletin of the DIA 38, no. 2 (1958/59): pp. 19-21 (ill.).

Honey, W.B. Dresden China. London, 1954, pp. 107, 190, pl. 166A.

Ruckert, R. Meissner Porzellan, 1710-1810. Exh. cat., Bayerischen Nationalmuseum. Munich, 1966, p. 121, pl. 515.

Ducret, S. "Kandlers Vorbilder zum Schwanenservice." Weltkunst XXXIII, no. 6, March 15, 1963, p. 13.

Jouffroy, A. "Meissonnier." Connaissance des Arts, no. 63, May, 1957, p. 40.

Walcha, O. Meissner Porzellan. Dresden, 1973, p. 451, pl. 91.

Schwanenservice. Meissner Porzellan Für Heinrich Graf von Brühl. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Dresden, 2000, p. 167. [mentioned in cat. no. 41]

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Candlestick, 1739, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund, 58.166.1.