A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN, MENNECY AND PARIS PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS

AFTER THE MODEL BY JOHANN JOACHIM KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN, MENNECY AND PARIS PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS
After the model by Johann Joachim Kändler
Each with an oxen seated beneath green-painted tôle branches flowered with polychrome-painted porcelain flowerheads and surmounted by a channelled asymetrically-cast foliate baluster nozzle, on an asymetrically-cast pierced spreading rockwork, C-scroll and acanthus plinth, each inscribed 'Ni..', restorations to porcelain, lacking two flowerheads, numbered '14'
10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) high; 6¾ in. (17 cm.) deep (2)

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Modelled by J.J. Kändler at Meissen between 1740-48, these oxen were described in the accounts as '1 Ochse von zieml. Grösse, wie er lieget und ruhet, natürlich vorgestellet. 6 Thlr' (C. Albiker. 'Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. jahrhundert', Berlin, 1959, no. 218).

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