Art Institute of Chicago
Dish from the Swan Service
Meissen Porcelain ManufactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-dcc441afb176
- Date
- 1738
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
- Culture
- Meissen
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 74737
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This plate was a part of an elaborate 2,200-piece dinner service that was acclaimed as the largest porcelain service produced in the 18th century. It was commissioned by the director of the Meissen Manufactory, Count Heinrich von Brühl, in 1736 and took four years to complete. Almost all the pieces are painted with the arms of count Brühl and his wife Maria Anna Franziska, whom he married in 1734.
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- Credit line
- Bessie Bennett Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300386308
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18th Century Porcelain FigurinesThese objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse
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