Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
German, founded 1710
Sauceboat from the Sulkowsky Service
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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
German, founded 17101735–38
Sauceboat from the Sulkowsky Service
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory German, founded 1710 →tablewareeuropean decorative arts
Date
1735–38
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
Dimensions
11 × 25.9 × 19.1 cm (4 5/16 × 10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Annette M. Chapin and Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial Funds
This sauceboat is from a Meissen service made for Count Alexander Joseph von Sulkowsky, a Polish nobleman who joined the court of Augustus the Strong as a page and became a minister at the court of Friedrich Augustus II. Sulkowsky supervised the deliveries of Asian and Meissen porcelain to the Japanese Palace in Dresden, which was intended to house the most comprehensive collection of porcelain in Europe. Sulkowsky’s close connection with the Meissen Manufactory led him to commission his own dinner service, Meissen’s first privately commissioned armorial service. Each piece is decorated with Sulkowsky’s coat of arms.
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