A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A COCKATOO after the original model by J. J. Kändler perched on a tree-stump, facing right and with its head lowered, with moulded and incised plumage, the feathers framing its head coloured in iron-red, purple and yellow and its tail-feathers in green and purple, its beak and claws in grey and black, the stump enriched in green, apricot and gilding and with a flower-spray and leaves moulded in relief, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 6, incised 1778, circa 1890

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A COCKATOO after the original model by J. J. Kändler perched on a tree-stump, facing right and with its head lowered, with moulded and incised plumage, the feathers framing its head coloured in iron-red, purple and yellow and its tail-feathers in green and purple, its beak and claws in grey and black, the stump enriched in green, apricot and gilding and with a flower-spray and leaves moulded in relief, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 6, incised 1778, circa 1890
14¼in. (36cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Dr. K. Berling (Ed.), Meissen China, An Illustrated History, Toronto and London, 1972, Table 4, no. 4 for an example of 1734. See also Carl Albiker, op. cit., pl. 100

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