A Meissen model of a cedar waxwing

CIRCA 1745

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A Meissen model of a cedar waxwing
Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, perched preening to its right with one wing outstretched, the plumage naturalistically coloured in tones of brown and black, with pink face and white, red and yellow tips to the wings and tail-feathers, on a tree-stump base applied with flowers and foliage (restored around join to base, to tail, one wing and tips to some feathers, two claws lacking and two restored, slight damages and restoration to foliage)
9 3/8in. (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair sold in these Rooms on 9 October 1995, lot 118; see also the examples in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit. (1956), pl. 15, fig. 21; another pair are in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford, nos. H629 and T629A.

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