A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF WAXWINGS

MEISSEN BIRDS AND FIGURES The Property of THE EARL OF SHELBURNE, Removed from Bowood House, Calne, Wiltshire

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF WAXWINGS
Circa 1741

Modelled by J.J. Kändler and naturally coloured with grey, brown and black plumage, with red flashes to their heads and with yellow, red and white markings to their black wings and yellow tips to their tails, perched astride tree-trunks applied with foliage, flowers, a beetle, a caterpillar and mushrooms (some claws lacking, chipping to foliage), the right example with traces of blue crossed swords and Pressnummer 45 twice
9 1/4in. (23.5cm.) and 9 1/2in. (24cm.) high (2)

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Cf. the examples in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel, pl. 15, fig. 21; another pair are in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford, nos. H629 and T629A

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