Lot 100
100
TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF LEOPARDS modelled by J.J. Kändler, spotted in black and their backs with fur markings in brown, seated on their haunches their right paws resting on a piece of meat (one with chips to ears), blue crossed swords marks at backs, circa 1750

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TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF LEOPARDS modelled by J.J. Kändler, spotted in black and their backs with fur markings in brown, seated on their haunches their right paws resting on a piece of meat (one with chips to ears), blue crossed swords marks at backs, circa 1750
6.3cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

There are two pot-pourri vases mounted with leopards of this model in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, see Rückert (1966), nos. 1054-1057; similar figures were sold Sotheby's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 60 and Sotheby's London, 28 June 1977, lot 144

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