Monteith (Wine Cooler) from the Swan Service
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Fine Meissen Porcelain and Continental Porcelain, Sotheby & Co., London, February 19‒21, 1966
Property from the Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller: A Collecting Legacy, Sotheby’s New York, January 11‒17, 2019
From the service commissioned by Heinrich Graf von Brühl (1700-63), Schloss Pförten, (today Brody, Poland), ca. 1740;
By descent in the von Brühl family, Schloss Pförten;
Possibly among the pieces from the service lost in 1945 from Schloss Pförten;
Sold, Fine English and Continental Porcelain…, Sotheby & Co., London, November 28, 1961, lot 153;
Purchased at an anonymous sale, Fine Continental Porcelain, Sotheby's, London, February 22, 1966, lot 80, by Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1966-November 1969;
Sale, The Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2019, lot 356 (part);
Restituted to the heir of Friedrich-Joseph Graf von Brühl (1875 -1949) and the current owners and brought to sale through agreement [1];
Purchased at Noble and Private Collections, including Property from the Earl of Home, Sotheby’s London, May 22, 2025, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.
NOTES:
[1] https://www.lostart.de/en/lost/object/pair-monteiths-swan-service-heinrich-von-bruhl/606644?term=swan%20service&filter%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D=Objects&start=20&position=23. Lostart ID 606644; status of “amicable settlement”
Possibly illustrated Burlington Magazine 97, no. 632 (March 1955): vii.
Catalogue of Fine English and Continental Porcelain…Tuesday November 28, 1961, Sotheby & Co., London, lot 153, p. 42.
Catalogue of Fine Continental Porcelain…Sotheby & Co., London, Tuesday 22 February, 1966, Lot 80, p. 29 (ill.)
Property from the Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller: A Collecting Legacy, 18 January 2019. Sotheby’s New York, 74‒79 (ill.)
