Charger, from the Swan Service ('Schwanenservice'), Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, Heinrich Graf von Brühl, German, 1700 - 1763, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, 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., Germany, ca. 1738, ceramics, Decorative Arts, charger

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