CIRCA 1755-60, THE STAG GROUP DECORATED LATER IN THE 18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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TWO MEISSEN HUNTING GROUPS
CIRCA 1755-60, THE STAG GROUP DECORATED LATER IN THE 18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, one modelled as three hounds attacking a stag, the other as three hounds and a doe, on mound bases applied with flowers and leaves
The stag group - 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high

Literature

Ulrich Pietsch et al., Porzellan Parforce, Jagdliches Meißner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 2005, p. 77, cat. nos. 26 (doe group).
Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Sammlung Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn: Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, 2008, pp. 59-61, nos. 37 (stag group) & 38 (doe group).
Julia Weber, Keramos 2012/216: Von Moskau bis Lissabon, von Dublin bis Konstantinopel. Der Handel mit Meißener Porzellan im 18. Jahrhundert (1719-1773), pp. 40-41, nos. 54, 55, 56 and 57.

Exhibited

Porzellan Parforce, Schloss Moritzburg bei Dresden 2005; Porzellan Parforce, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf 2005; Porzellan Parforce, Knauf-Museum, Iphofen 2006 (doe group).

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Lot Essay

Kändler based the doe group on an engraving entitled 'Der gehetzte wehrlose Rehbock' by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), an example of which is held at the manufactory archives. The models were commissioned by the Paris marchand-mercier Michel Joseph Lair (1732-1758) in 1758. The original watercolour designs for both groups, which Lair sent to the manufactory, are also dated 1758 and are preserved in the factory archives. They are illustrated together with the porcelain models from the Collection of Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn, by Julia Weber in Keramos 2012/216: Von Moskau bis Lissabon, von Dublin bis Konstantinopel. Der Handel mit Meißener Porzellan im 18. Jahrhundert (1719-1773), pp. 40-41, nos. 54, 55, 56 and 57.

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