A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF MAGPIES ON GILTWOOD BRACKETS

TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF MAGPIES ON GILTWOOD BRACKETS

CIRCA 1740, ELEMENTS OF THE DECORATION PERHAPS LATER, THE BRACKETS LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN

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TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF MAGPIES ON GILTWOOD BRACKETS
CIRCA 1740, ELEMENTS OF THE DECORATION PERHAPS LATER, THE BRACKETS LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, perched to left and right, their tails raised, with black and white plumage, on high tree-stump bases applied with flowers and trailing leafy branches, each on a neo-classical-style giltwood wall bracket moulded with swags and ribbon-tied fronds
Approx. 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) high excluding bracket
Approx. 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high including bracket

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Lot Essay

J.J. Kändler's Taxa for February 1733, XIX Bl. 116, mentions '1 Aelster in Lebensgrösse' (Magpie, lifesize). A pair of magpies are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, from the collection of Irwin Untermyer and are illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1956, pl. 3, fig. 4.

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