Charger, from the Swan Service (Schwanenservice)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1738
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Client
content: Heinrich Graf von Brühl, German, 1700 - 1763
label: Modeler
content: Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706 - 1775
label: Contributor
content: Lachapelle, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Molded with two swans swimming in rough water among fish and shells and flanked by bulrushes, a heron wading with a fish in its beak another in flight above, on a spiral shell-mounted ground. Decorated with a gilt rim and a large coat-of-armor at the top beneath border.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Commander Henry H. Gorringe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-130-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: charger
label: Type
content: charger
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 6.6 x 38.2 cm (2 5/8 x 15 1/16 in.)