Rare large round Meissen bowl from the Swan Service Round shape with a matching curved rim. The recessed centre with rising relief decoration of two swans leaning towards each other, a heron standing in the reeds and flying above. Indian blossom branches and scattered flowers on a flag in wave-shaped relief. Above the alliance coat of arms of Count Heinrich von Brühl and his wife Franziska von Kolowrat-Krakowsky. Polychrome painting with combed gold edging. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1738, maker's mark for Johann Martin Kittel. Stamped number "5". Partially restored; crossed swords mark. D. 42.5 cm. Kaendler designed bowls for the swan service in five different sizes; according to the report on his work after work, they are described as follows: "Five pieces of bowls, from No 2 - No 6 according to the waste (the size), in the shape of a grown shell, in which water, on which 2. Five pieces of bowls from No. 2 to No. 6 in the shape of a grown shell, on which two swans are swimming in a reed, together with a fish reyher, holding a fish in a reed, one of which is also flying over the water, in front of His Excellency the Imperial Count of Brühl."- The dinner service, originally comprising around 2200 pieces, which Heinrich Count of Brühl, director of the Meissen porcelain manufactory under August III, 1736, is the most magnificent porcelain service of the 18th century and a central work of Meissen porcelain art. It was designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler and modelled between 1737 and 1741 with the help of his colleagues Johann Friedrich Eberlein and Johann Gottlieb Ehder. Other bowls in important collections. In the Dresden Porcelain Collection, inv. no. P.E. 1427. Cf. Pietsch, cat. Swan service, no. 29, p. 159. Provenance: formerly in the possession of Heinrich Graf von Brühl; Schloss Ahlden, auction no. 97, 17/18 May 1996, lot 13. May 1996, lot 1360; Sotheby's auction (...), lot 77; From the liquidation of an important North German private collection. A rare large round porcelain bowl from the "swan service" with the alliance coat of arms of the Count of Brühl and his wife. Partly restored. Former's mark. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1738.