THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, FROM THE J.J. KÄNDLER MODEL OF CIRCA 1743, THE DECORATION AND MOUNTS OF LATER DATE

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TWO ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN MODELS OF BEARS (SITZENDER BÄR)
THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, FROM THE J.J. KÄNDLER MODEL OF CIRCA 1743, THE DECORATION AND MOUNTS OF LATER DATE
Each seated in a playful position with its forepaws raised, the ogival base with milled edge and applied with snails and lizards, the trunk of a young tree at one side, one bear with its paws around the tree, the other with the tree at its right
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high overall (2)

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Kändler's Taxa or workbook of 1740-1748 records the following description corresponding to the present model: 2 Bäre nach der Natur in Thon boussirt, wie solche gegen einander spielen, vor die Printzessin von Herfordt, jeder a 2 Thlr. See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, cat. no. 1171, Taf. 285 for the example in the collection of Frau Carola Roth.

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