Candlestick, ca. 1742

  • Johann Friedrich Eberlein, German, 1696-1749
  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, founded 1710

Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

  • Overall: 9 1/4 × 6 3/16 × 6 3/8 inches (23.5 × 15.7 × 16.2 cm)

Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head

F1985.88.3

On View

  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Heinrich, Count von Brühl (Brühl Palace, Dresden, Germany)

by 1968, Ruth Nugent Head (New York, New York)

1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Darr, Alan Phipps. "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 62, no. 3 (1986): 22–24, p. 24. Bodinek, Claudia. "Ein Meissener Porzellanservice für den Grafen — Das Brühl'sche Allerlei." Keramos 235/236 (2017): 5–134, pp. 54, 133, no. UB-2 (ill.).

Johann Friedrich Eberlein; Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Candlestick, ca. 1742, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, F1985.88.3.