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CIRCA 1730
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Two Meissen miniature models of parrots
Circa 1730
Modelled with their heads turned slightly to the right, each with incised brown beaks and yellow and red eyes, one with a mottled puce back, a blue breast, green wings and a black tail, the other with a blue back, black breast, mottled puce wings and an iron-red, green and yellow tail, each perched on brown logs on waisted moulded octagonal bases enriched with gilt lines and iron-red scroll borders (both broken through legs and restored, the first with slight restoration to tip of beak, the second probably broken through body)
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) and 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high (2)
Circa 1730
Modelled with their heads turned slightly to the right, each with incised brown beaks and yellow and red eyes, one with a mottled puce back, a blue breast, green wings and a black tail, the other with a blue back, black breast, mottled puce wings and an iron-red, green and yellow tail, each perched on brown logs on waisted moulded octagonal bases enriched with gilt lines and iron-red scroll borders (both broken through legs and restored, the first with slight restoration to tip of beak, the second probably broken through body)
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) and 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main.
Felix Kramarsky, New Rochelle, New York, sale Parke-Bernet, 10th January 1959, lot 669 (where they were described as du Paquier).
Dr. Joseph Kler, sale Christie's New York, 27th April 1984, lot 29.
Felix Kramarsky, New Rochelle, New York, sale Parke-Bernet, 10th January 1959, lot 669 (where they were described as du Paquier).
Dr. Joseph Kler, sale Christie's New York, 27th April 1984, lot 29.
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