Hot-Milk Jug and Cover

Possibly from a service ordered by Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763), Dresden, Saxony, by 1763;

Anonymous sale, Königliche Juwelen und kostbarste Kunstschätze aus der Sammlung S.K.H. des Prinzen Nikolaus von Rumänien des weiteren Kollektionen…, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, Switzerland, May 21-30, 1964, probably lot 2247 [1];

Unknown private European collection, by 2009 [2];

With Brian Haughton Gallery, London, 2009;

Said (1934-2023) and Roswitha (b. 1937) Marouf, California, by 2010;

Purchased at their sale, The Marouf Collection, Part I, Bonhams, London, December 5, 2012, lot 68, by an unknown private collector, 2012;

With the Brian Haughton Gallery, London, by 2017;

Purchased from the Brian Haughton Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

NOTES:

[1] This object is one of two small jugs included in this sale as part of lots 2247-2260, Service, Meissen, 1735-1740. Lots 2247 and 2248 are described as Zwei Kaffeekännchen. Birnenform mit Deckel und Schnabelausguss in Form eines Frauenkopfes mit weisser Halskrause und schwarzem, goldgerändertem Dreispitz. Die Henkelfigur mit buntel Federbusch. H=je 16 cm [Two small coffee pots. Pear-shaped with lid and spout in the form of a woman's head with a white neck ruff and a black, gold-trimmed tricorn hat. The handle figure wears a colorful plume. Height = 16 cm each]. The jugs are illustrated in plate 21 of the sale’s catalogue. A visual comparison of the plate and a contemporary photograph suggests lot 2247 is most likely the Nelson-Atkins jug.

[2] According to A Passion for Porcelain (London: Brian Haughton Gallery, 2009), 41, this piece was “from a distinguished private continental collection of early Meissen and continental ceramics.”