A Meissen model of a sparrow-hawk

CIRCA 1740

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A Meissen model of a sparrow-hawk
Circa 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler with brown, black, grey and red plumage with yellow beak and claws, perched on a tree-stump, wings folded, feeding from the breast of a bird held in its talons (restoration to wings and tails of both birds, prey's feet and tree-stump)
11¼in. (28.5cm.) high
Provenance
Schneider Collection.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 4 July 1977, lot 111 and in our New York Rooms, 21 November 1980, lot 387, and the example in the G. von Gerhardt Collection Catalogue, pl. 28, no. 105. See also Carl Albiker, op. cit., no. 86

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