CIRCA 1733, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, BLACK NO280./.W.

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Two Meissen models of Birds of Paradise
Circa 1733, blue crossed swords marks, black N^o280./.W.
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with open beaks, each with its left wing raised, with green and yellow breasts, turquoise and green heads and necks, turquoise backs, turquoise, green and red wing and tail feathers, with puce subsidiary wings and striped red legs and feet, perched on tall conical tree-stumps applied with their fantastic tails ending in a puce scroll, one bird with the ends of its tail painted in puce in trompe l'oeil at the base of the tree-stump, each tree-stump applied with a trailing leafy branch issuing from moss (each with restoration to beaks, raised left wing, one of which is partly lacking, each left subsidiary wing restored, one tail restored, one applied end of tail lacking, one with broken area of base of tree-stump restored, both with slight chipping to base)
10¼in. (26cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Carl Albiker, Meissner Porzellan (1959), no. 102 for the example in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden.

See Kändlers Taxa for January 1733 XIX Bl. 51: 'noch ein kleinen Vogel in Grösse eines Finken, hat Flügel 2 grosse und 2 kleine, einen langen Schnabel, und der Schwanz bestehet in 2 langen Federn, weche sich am Ende in einen doppelten Ring verwandeln.'

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