CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO END OF BASE

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A Meissen model of a leaping greyhound
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO END OF BASE
Sleekly modelled to the left with his head slightly turned, his white coat with scattered small brown patches and with black claws, leaping over a tree-stump in pursuit of game, on an elongated oval mound base applied with coloured trailing flowers and foliage (extensively sprayed)
10½ in. (26.8 cm.) long

Literature

Guttmann Catalogue, no. 27.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for 1740-44 lists a Hund auff einem Rasen sehr dürre, dass alle Knocken zu sehen, ein Wind-Spiel vorstellend, vor den Herrn von Bilow. 2. Thlr. 8 g. Two similar examples are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), nos. 190 and 191. A pair of similar greyhounds were sold in these Rooms on 7th July 1969, lot 170, and another on 3rd December 1984, lot 143.

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