A pair of Meissen models of cockatoos

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A pair of Meissen models of cockatoos
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords marks
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and vibrantly coloured with red, puce, yellow, blue, green and white plumage perched astride conical tree-stumps applied with green foliage (chips to two crests, one claw chipped, large chip to underside of one wing, chips to foliage and some foliage lacking)
8½in. (21.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 24 February 1959, lot 138.

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples sold by Sotheby's on 20 May 1958, lot 144 and in these Rooms on 17 October 1977, lot 195; see also the example in the Emma Budge Collection sold by Paul Graupe, Berlin on 29 September 1937, lot 771; and Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, Porcelain (1970), vol. IV, pp. 28-31, no. 7 and 8.

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