19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS PARTIALLY VISIBLE TO THE SIDE OF THE BASE ON ONE, AFTER THE MODELS PROBABLY BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PARAKEETS
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS PARTIALLY VISIBLE TO THE SIDE OF THE BASE ON ONE, AFTER THE MODELS PROBABLY BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each long-tailed bird naturalistically modeled with green, iron-red, teal, yellow and dark blue plumage, perched on a tree-stump applied with cherries, a beetle and yellow flowers with blue centers, on scrolling ormolu bases each stamped with a spurious 'C' couronné poinçon
14 ½ in. (36.7 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

With Philip Suval, New York (as 18th century).
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above on 26 May 1952.

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Lot Essay

There is no specific mention of these models in the work reports of Kändler or his sculptor colleagues. A pair of similar (unmounted) models are illustrated by Gerhard Röbbig, Kabinettstücke, Amira-Palais, Munich, October-November 2008 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2008, p. 130. The present pair also relates to the earlier pair of parakeets in the Sheafer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object no. 1974.356.341, as well as a pair of ‘Indian Parakeets’ sold Christie’s, New York, 3 June 2004, lot 828.

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