CIRCA 1735

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A Meissen model of a seated monkey
Circa 1735
Modelled by J.G. Kirchner, to the right and turned to the front with pink face and ears and black-streaked and blue-splashed coat holding a fruit in its right hand, seated on a rockwork mound base modelled with waterweeds and moss and enriched in brown, yellow, green and puce (extensive crack through back and shoulder restored, restoration to left wrist and to tufts of hair on forehead, some very slight chipping)
9½in. (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Carl Albiker, op. cit. (1959), no. 19 for the example in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, see also Rainer Rückert, op. cit. (1966), col. pl. XXVIII, no. 1048. Similar examples were sold in these Rooms on 2 October 1989, lot 138 and 13 March 1989, lot 97.

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