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Dish
Producer: Meissen
Producer: Kaendler, Johann Joachim (1706-1775
Started work at Meissen 1731.)
Dish, hard-paste porcelain, circular, standing on a foot rim, flared sides, large rim, scalloped lip; moulded surface, alternately concave and convex rays curve from the centre to the rim, the central field is moulded with two swans swimming among water plants as a crane flies overhead, the rim is painted with the arms of Graf Heinrich von Brühl and scattered Indianische Blumen, lip edge is highlighted with a gilt border.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33429
Creation/Production
Meissen
Role: Production
Kaendler, Johann Joachim
Role: Factory
Date: 1737-1741 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 29/7/1985
Measurements
Height: 6cm
diam(cm):34
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case 04
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