Brandenstein relief

Plate from the Neu-Brandenstein service

Brandenstein relief decoration is a plastic relief decoration on ceramic dishes that imitates a certain form of wickerwork . Undecorated fields divide the wickerwork on the plate rim into four segments. Each of these segments consists of a large, diagonally braided field and two smaller, cross-braided outer fields; their dividing rods protrude into the top of the plate.

The Brandenstein relief was designed by Johann Friedrich Eberlein and Johann Joachim Kändler in 1741 for a Meissen porcelain dinner service that was ordered by the Saxon head chef Friedrich August von Brandenstein. In 1744, the "Neu-Brandenstein" was developed like most of the new decors: the dividing bars are curved in a Rococo style.

literature

• Otto Walcha : Meissen porcelain. From the beginning to the present . Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1986, 8th edition, ISBN 3-364-00012-3 .
• Günther Sterba: Utility porcelain from Meissen . Edition Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 3-361-00193-5 .