Lot Essay
An example in the Landesmuseum, Schwerin, which is very similar to the right-hand bird is illustrated by Carl Albiker, op. cit. (Berlin, 1959), no. 126.
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CIRCA 1740
Details
TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF GUINEA-FOWL
CIRCA 1740
Modelled to the left and right, their black bodies with white speckled markings, purple and grey necks and red wattles and combs, both with large white patches to their abdomens, each perched astride tree-stumps with leafy branches, the left base with turquoise reeds and a red flower (restoration to left bird's comb and right bird's beak, both with restoration to claws and foliage and some re-touching to flaking of black enamel, right bird with minor chip to underside edge of base)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) and 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1740
Modelled to the left and right, their black bodies with white speckled markings, purple and grey necks and red wattles and combs, both with large white patches to their abdomens, each perched astride tree-stumps with leafy branches, the left base with turquoise reeds and a red flower (restoration to left bird's comb and right bird's beak, both with restoration to claws and foliage and some re-touching to flaking of black enamel, right bird with minor chip to underside edge of base)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) and 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm.) high (2)
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
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