Plate, from the Brühlsche Allerlei service
(c. 1745-1747)
Medium
porcelain (hard-paste)
Measurements
4.0 × 26.3 × 25.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Heinrich, Count von Brühl was prime minister at the Saxon court of Augustus III and in 1733 was appointed director of the Meissen manufactory. These two plates are from a service the count ordered in 1742, comprising around 2000 pieces and designed by Johann Friedrich Eberlein. The plates are decorated on their gold-contoured, scalloped borders with a relief pattern consisting of alternating floral sprays, lattices and shell motifs. The wells of the plates are painted with a variety of European fruits, vegetables and flowers from which the service’s popular name Brühl’sche Allerlei (literally Brühl’s assortment) derives.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Meissen, Germany
Inscription
painted in blue on base c.: • • / (crossed swords)
impressed in base l.c.: 21
Accession Number
4597.2-D3
Department
International Decorative Arts