TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF BEARS modelled by J.J. Kändler one with it's head slightly raised and with russet hair markings, iron-red mouth and dark brown nose, the other with brown markings, black nose and iron-red mouth (chips to fore-paws of first and chip to left ear and muzzle and slight chip to right ear of second), circa 1741

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TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF BEARS modelled by J.J. Kändler one with it's head slightly raised and with russet hair markings, iron-red mouth and dark brown nose, the other with brown markings, black nose and iron-red mouth (chips to fore-paws of first and chip to left ear and muzzle and slight chip to right ear of second), circa 1741
12.5cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

Carl Albiker, op. cit., nos. 172 illustrates one of these models and records three Kändler documents concerning them and a similar pair sold Sotheby's London, 7 December 1971, lot 176

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