Oval Tureen, ca. 1742

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

Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

  • Overall: 14 × 16 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (35.6 × 42.9 × 24.4 cm)

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

F1985.88.1

On View

  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South
  • 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. Schwanen Service: Meissner Porzellan Fur Heinrich Graf von Bruhl. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Dresden, 2000, p. 206, cat. 145. Bodinek, Claudia. "Ein Meissener Porzellanservice für den Grafen — Das Brühl'sche Allerlei." Keramos 235/236 (2017): 5–134, p. 126, no. LA-2 (ill.).

Johann Friedrich Eberlein; Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Oval Tureen, 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, F1985.88.1.