Lot Essay
A similar example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 1168.
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CIRCA 1740-45
Details
A MEISSEN MODEL OF A BILLY GOAT
CIRCA 1740-45
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to the left with its head slightly turned, its white shaggy coat with grey markings, supported by a flower-encrusted rock on an elongated oval mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (small chip to tip of right horn, other with minute frit, slight chipping to flowers and foliage, small minor crack to front right hoof, slight cracks to rock support, one from firing crack at side of base)
5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1740-45
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to the left with its head slightly turned, its white shaggy coat with grey markings, supported by a flower-encrusted rock on an elongated oval mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (small chip to tip of right horn, other with minute frit, slight chipping to flowers and foliage, small minor crack to front right hoof, slight cracks to rock support, one from firing crack at side of base)
5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm.) high
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
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