Art Institute of Chicago

Sauceboat from the Sulkowsky Service

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Date

1735–38

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding

Culture

Germany

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

This sauceboat is from a Meissen service made for Count Alexander Joseph von Sulkowsky, a Polish nobleman who joined the court of Augustus the Strong as a page and became a minister at the court of Friedrich Augustus II. Sulkowsky supervised the deliveries of Asian and Meissen porcelain to the Japanese Palace in Dresden, which was intended to house the most comprehensive collection of porcelain in Europe. Sulkowsky’s close connection with the Meissen Manufactory led him to commission his own dinner service, Meissen’s first privately commissioned armorial service. Each piece is decorated with Sulkowsky’s coat of arms.

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