A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF JAYS (EICHELHÄHER)

CIRCA 1740, EACH IMPRESSED 45, ONE IMPRESSED TWICE, POSSIBLY SOMEWHAT LATER DECORATED

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF JAYS (EICHELHÄHER)
CIRCA 1740, EACH IMPRESSED 45, ONE IMPRESSED TWICE, POSSIBLY SOMEWHAT LATER DECORATED
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, naturally coloured with brown, gray, black and blue plumage, each perched on a tree-stump nibbling at acorns, one with a squirrel running around its base, the other with a bird seated on a nest in the branches, both tree-stumps applied with oak leaves, caterpillars and enriched in brown and green moss
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Rainer Rueckert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 1109, plate 272 for a single example with the squirrel of the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich and Christie's New York, 23 April 1998, lot 241.
For similar models of the nests see also Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II and Rainer Rückert, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington D.C. 1979, Vol. I, page 484, no.330.

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