About the Artwork
Oval Platter
between 1738 and 1741
Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Artist) German, 1696-1749 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710
Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
Overall: 3 × 13 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (7.6 × 34.6 × 24.4 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund
58.168.1
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, on bottom, in underglaze blue: [crossed swords; Meissen factory mark] Marks, impressed on bottom edge: 27 Marks, on oval paper sticker: 3242
Provenance
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken Des 18. Jahrhunderts: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd. 3. Berlin, 1912, no. 32, p. 62 (ill.).
Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd. 3. Braunschweig, 1956, no. 68, p. 119 (ill.).
Albiker, C. Die Meissner Porzellantiere Im IM 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1959, nos. 279, 281, pl. LXIX.
Schwanenservice. Meissner Porzellan Für Heinrich Graf von Brühl. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Dresden, 2000, p. 167. [mentioned in cat. no. 23]
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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Oval Platter, between 1738 and 1741, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund, 58.168.1.
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