Plate

between 1737 and 1741

After a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein , Artist After a model by Johann Joachim Kändler , Artist Meissen Porcelain Manufactory , Manufacturer

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Decorative Arts, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Plate

Artwork Date between 1737 and 1741

Makers After a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Artist) German, 1696-1749 After a model by Johann Joachim Kändler (Artist) German, 1706-1775 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710

Medium Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

Dimensions Overall (irreg.): 1 3/16 × 8 15/16 inches (3 × 22.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Anonymous bequest

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. 62.79

Markings

Marks Marks, on underside, in underglaze blue: [crossed swords with round pommels] Marks, impressed inside of foot ring: [Maltese cross; former's mark]

Provenance

Count Heinrich von Brühl (Dresden, Germany);
by descent to Count Szembek (Warsaw, Poland);
(By 1952, Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA);
1952-1962, private collection;
1962-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Berling, K. Festive Publication to Commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory, Meissen. Meissen, 1910, pp. 25, 30.

Albiker, Carl. Die Meissner Porzellantier Im 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1935, p. 125 (fig. 280).

Catalogue of Fine Continental Porcelain. Sales cat., Sotheby & Co., London, June 26, 1956, nos. 106-111.

Ruckert, Rainer. Meissner Porzellan 1710-1810. Munich, 1966, p. 121, no. 510.

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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Plate, between 1737 and 1741, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Anonymous bequest, 62.79.