A pair of Meissen models of a Lion and a Lioness

CIRCA 1745

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A pair of Meissen models of a Lion and a Lioness
Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, recumbent to left and right with alert expressions, their coats finely incised and with pale-brown markings and highlights with black noses and brown muzzles (very slight chipping to claws)
11in. (28cm.) and 12½in. (32cm.) long

Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for 1744 lists '1 Löwe, mittelmäfsiger Grosse, liegend mit offenen Rachen, vor Ihro Königl. maj.'

Cf. Carl Albiker, op. cit. (1959), nos. 159 and 160; and R.J. Charleston, Meissen and Oriental Porcelain, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (1971), pp. 170-171, no. 59.

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