A MEISSEN WHITE LARGE METAL-MOUNTED BIRDCAGE VASE emblematic of Air, modelled by J.J. Kändler, of inverted baluster form with pierced sides applied with scrolling foliage and surmounted by a parrot and clouds, the interior with two finches (extended firing cracks, restoration to wings of parrot, clouds and back of cage, chips and restorations to extremities, parrot broken from cage and repaired), circa 1748 25½in. (65cm.) high

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A MEISSEN WHITE LARGE METAL-MOUNTED BIRDCAGE VASE emblematic of Air, modelled by J.J. Kändler, of inverted baluster form with pierced sides applied with scrolling foliage and surmounted by a parrot and clouds, the interior with two finches (extended firing cracks, restoration to wings of parrot, clouds and back of cage, chips and restorations to extremities, parrot broken from cage and repaired), circa 1748 25½in. (65cm.) high

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Cf. Ernst Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan, pl. 47 for a related vase also emblematic of 'Air' from a series of vases representing the Elements modelled for Count Brühl between 1747 and 1748

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