About the Artwork
Plate
between 1737 and 1741
Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Artist) German, 1696-1749 Johann Joachim Kändler (Artist) German, 1706-1775 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710
Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
Overall (irreg.): 1 3/16 × 8 15/16 inches (3 × 22.7 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Anonymous bequest
62.79
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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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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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.
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