Swan Service
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The Swan Service is a large service of baroque Meissen porcelain which was made for the First Minister of the Electorate of Saxony and favourite of king Augustus III of Poland, Heinrich von Brühl. Aug
Swan Service in the National Museum in Warsaw
Surviving plate from the Swan Service, ca. 1738
Detail of a tureen stand, with the swan motif
Stand for a tureen, c. 1737–41
Osier pattern
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In tableware the Osier pattern is a moulded basket-weave pattern in delicate relief used round the borders of porcelain plates and other pieces of flatware. It originated in Germany in the 1730s on Me
A version of the third type "New Osier", known as "Brandenstein-Relief". Modern plate.
Lao ricebasket; the sort of weave imitated in the first "Sulkowski" type
Wicker fence with the sort of weave imitated in the "old osier" pattern
Frankenthal porcelain imitation of the "old osier" pattern, with minimal vertical bands