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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)

CIRCA 1740, ONE WITH FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND TWICE IMPRESSED 34, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)
CIRCA 1740, ONE WITH FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND TWICE IMPRESSED 34, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each modeled perched on a tree-stump, the female disemboweling a lark, the male with his beak buried in a vole's abdomen
11 ½ in. (26.5 cm.) high, the male
Provenance
Acquired from Stoner & Evans, Inc., New York, November 1949.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 87, no. 79.
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Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for April 1734 mentions the model with a lark '1 Rittelweibgen oder Lerchengeyer, welches vorstellet in Lebensgrösse, wie eseine Lerche frisst, rubet auf einem verziertem Postament.' Similar examples of both are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, p. 103-5. A pair mounted as candelabra were sold Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 80.

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