A Meissen group of Billing doves Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, their plumage enriched in shades of grey, black, purple and light-brown, with brown crests and striped brown and light-brown legs and feet, perched on a mound base splashed in green (one wing tip and one beak restored replacements, restoration to one foot and repaired chip to one crest)
5in. (12.5cm.) wide
拍品專文
Cf. Carl Albiker, op. cit. (1959), no. 114; see also the examples sold in these Rooms on 21 May 1969, lot 45 and 27 January 1980, lot 125 and by Christie's, Geneva on 14 November 1988, lot 56.