CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK

Details

A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SANDPIPERS
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each perched astride a tree-stump, the plumage with brown and black markings
10 1/8 in. (25.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Pavlovsk Palace, St. Petersburg.
With Arthur S. Vernay, New York, 1939.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, 1939-48.
The Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired February 1958.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, Vol. IV, p. 88, no. 80.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

These Meissen spotted plovers belonged to Mother. She had them for many years in her sitting room on the second floor of the apartment at 740 Park Avenue.
D.R.

The 1903 Meissen Price List, Blatt 57, no. 2083, identifies this model as a Teichuferläufer (Pond Sandpiper). Compare the single from the collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, sold Sotheby's, London, 1 May 2013, lot 18.

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