CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SIDE OF BASES

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF MONKEYS
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SIDE OF BASES
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the first with a male monkey attached to a short tree-stump by a chain and a band around his waist, holding a pile of nuts in a white apron and a nut in his left hand, the second with a female monkey holding a white apron of fruit, a young monkey at her side, both with fruit in their hands, each group with shaped circular mound bases applied with coloured flowers and foliage (both with restoration to tree-stumps, male with restoration to back of base, part of apron and left arm, second group with restoration to female's left arm, right ear and young monkey's right hind leg, both with further damages and restorations)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) and 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high (2)

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar monkeys are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), nos. 165 and 166. Similar and related examples were sold in these Rooms on 21st June 1965, lot 157; on 20th October 1975, lot 174; on 6th July 1981, lot 188, on 7th October 1985, lot 188, and on 5th July 2004, lot 162. Another example of the female monkey is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 1062.

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