Plate from the Swan Service

Commissioned by Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763), Dresden, Saxony, 1736 [1];

With Hans E. Backer, Rome, by July 6, 1957 [2];

Purchased from Backer, on joint account with Backer and A. & L. Wittekind, Inc., New York, by Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, stock no. 3504, October 21, 1957-May 25, 1959 [3];

Purchased from Rosenberg and Stiebel by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] Count Heinrich von Brühl commissioned the Swan Service on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Anna Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowska in 1737. At the time, Count von Brühl was the director of the Meissen porcelain manufactory.

[2] Letter from Hans E. Backer to Rosenberg & Stiebel, July 6, 1957, Frick Art Reference Library, New York, MS.065 Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files, Backer, H. E. Copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

[3] Backer sold a half share of a group of 21 pieces from the Swan Service, including this plate, to Rosenberg & Stiebel in October 1957, as recorded in the Rosenberg & Stiebel Purchase and Sales Ledger 1956-1958. Subsequently, Rosenberg & Stiebel sold a half share of that group to A. & L. Wittekind, as recorded in the Rosenberg & Stiebel Purchase & Sale Ledger 1959-1970, although the date of that transaction is not included in the ledger. Frick Art Reference Library, New York, MS.065 Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Sales and Inventory Records, Purchases and Sales, 1956-1958 and 1959-1970, copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.