A pair of Meissen models of bison

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A pair of Meissen models of bison
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords marks
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to left and right, the beasts being cruelly savaged by three hounds and two hounds and a leopard, naturally coloured with grey and brown markings on oval mound bases applied with coloured flowers and foliage (the group with three hounds broken through base, through back of one hound and through front paw of other, repaired and with restored rim chips, restoration to hound's rumps and bison's horns, the other group with some restoration to all animals and through base)
9¾in. (25cm.) and 9¼in. (23.5cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for 1740-48 records '1 mit Hunden kämpffender Stier oder Ochse, in grimmiger action vorgestellet. 8Thlr.'

Cf. Carl Albiker, op. cit. (1959), nos. 192 and 193; see also Rainer Rückert, op.cit. (1966), pl. 1152.

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