Swan

The Swan Service

It's the most spectacular testimony to a dazzling bygone era, the magnum opus of German baroque art: the "Swan Service" by Johanna Joachum Kaendler.

The century service took five years until completion; never before had a set and this size and with such rich 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, appear in porcelain relief, for which Kaendler è was inspired by 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" è the rippling water, symbolizing the'eternal source of life.

Still formed and hand-painted in the Meissen manufactory.

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