Platter, between 1737 and 1740

  • Johann Friedrich Eberlein, German, 1696-1749
  • Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706-1775
  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, founded 1710

Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

  • Overall: 2 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (6.7 × 37.8 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

57.29

On View

  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Armand Wittekind, Paris, France)

(by 1956, Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)

1957-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

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, p. 119, no. 68 (ill.). Grigault, P. "Two Pieces from the Meissen 'Swan Service.'" Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956/57): pp. 66-67, p. 67 (ill.). Cassidy-Geiger, M. "Ein neues silbern Französisches Tafel Service: Linking the Penthièvre-Orléans service to Dresden." Silver Studies 21 (2007): p. 124-125, fig. 3 (ill.); p. 133, fig. 14 (detail).

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Platter, between 1737 and 1740, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 57.29.