A Pair of Meissen wild boars

CIRCA 1746,

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A Pair of Meissen wild boars
Circa 1746,
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to left and right, searching for truffles with their heads to the ground, their coats lightly marked in brown and grey (the female with right ear restored and slight chipping to hoofs, the male with chipping to right ear, tip of snout and ridge of back, both with slight chipping to teeth and tusks)
5½in. (14cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. Carl Albiker, op. cit. (1959), no. 222 for the example at Schloss Moritzburg. See also the example sold in these Rooms on 11 October 1976, lot 164 and by Sotheby's on 2 March 1993, lot 284.

See Kändler's Taxa August 1746 Bl. 206 records: '1 wildes Schwein poussiret, ohngefähr 3 Zoll hoch'.

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