CIRCA 1735-40

It is not clear if Kändler's work records record this specific model or not. A model listed in May 1734 is described as: 'Auch ist eine Hunde Hütte, welche so inventiret ist als wen selbige von Steinen gebauet und mit Dach Ziegeln gedecket wäre' (Also there is a dog-kennel, which is so inventive that it seems as if it was built by stones and the roof tiled with bricks). Several dog kennel groups were modelled, one of which has brickwork on the kennel walls. An example of the model with some minor variations is illustrated by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Idylle in Porzellan, Leipzig, 1996, p. 36, no. 24, where it is illustrated alongside a du Paquier copy, no. 23. The Dresden Conditorei inventory of 1733-48 recorded two of these groups and another was recorded in the Warsaw Conditorei inventory of 1750; three further examples were recorded in the Brühl inventory of 1753.

A similar example was sold in the Antique Company of New York sale at Sotheby's, New York, on 10 November 2006, lot 542, and another from the Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie Collection was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 1 May 2013, lot 199.