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The Swan Service
It is the most spectacular testimony to a dazzling bygone era, the magnum opus of German Baroque art: the "Swan Service" by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
This service of the century took five years to complete; never before had an ensemble of this size and with such a wealth of sculptural detail been created. The original service, designed for 100 people, comprised more than 2,200 pieces. The pair of eponymous birds, swimming among the reeds, appears in porcelain relief, for which Kaendler drew inspiration from drawings and etchings in the collections of the nearby capital and royal seat of Dresden.
"The Swan Service" by Meissen brings the style and grandeur of the Baroque banquet table into the present, a page from the illustrious tradition of Europe's oldest porcelain manufacturer.
The central motif of the extensive "Swan Service" is rippling water, symbolising the eternal source of life.
Still moulded and hand-painted at the Meissen manufactory.
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