Oval Platter, between 1738 and 1741

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

Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund

58.168.1

On View

  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)

1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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]

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.