CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK

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A Meissen group of an Oriental and a phoenix
Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark at back
Modelled by Georg Fritzsche, the bearded Oriental in yellow-lined black conical hat, long white robe and black shoes, seated holding a flower beside exotic flowering plants and a phoenix with a long black beak, iron-red and turquoise feather markings to its body and yellow, blue, iron-red, green and puce wing and tail feathers, perched on a mottled brown and purple tree-stump issuing two yellow fruits among leaves, on a mound base splashed in purple and green and stamped with rosettes and dots, with a later ormolu mount (tail of bird, covers of fruit, flower in hand of Oriental and some petals of another flower lacking, chips to tips of beard, leaves, flower-buds and base, pierced at back and with area chipped below tail of bird)
8¾in. (22.2cm.) wide

Lot Essay

For a similar example of this rare model see Clare le Corbeiller et al., The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1984), pp. 256-257, no. 105 formerly in the collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm and the Budge Collection. Another example is in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit. (1956), pl. 19, fig. 24, where she contests the attribution to Georg Fritzsche and re-attributes the model to J.J. Kändler. The registers of Kändler for his work in May 1735 include a group with a similar description to the present example. Another example was sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lot 112.

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