A PAIR OF MEISSEN BIRD-NESTING GROUPS AS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one modelled as a young man passing eggs from a nest to a young girl gathering them in her dress, a spade propped against a tree-trunk behind them, the other with a boy kneeling in the branches of a tree, passing eggs to a seated young woman, the nozzles supported on the highest branches of the trees, on mound bases (one branch detached, repairs to boy and woman, some branches lacking and with restoration, one with chips below base, various chips to branches and other extremities, drip-pans with damage and restoration), blue crossed swords marks, incised 1153 and 1160, painted numbers 32, circa 1880 | Christie's

Lot 58

A PAIR OF MEISSEN BIRD-NESTING GROUPS AS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one modelled as a young man passing eggs from a nest to a young girl gathering them in her dress, a spade propped against a tree-trunk behind them, the other with a boy kneeling in the branches of a tree, passing eggs to a seated young woman, the nozzles supported on the highest branches of the trees, on mound bases (one branch detached, repairs to boy and woman, some branches lacking and with restoration, one with chips below base, various chips to branches and other extremities, drip-pans with damage and restoration), blue crossed swords marks, incised 1153 and 1160, painted numbers 32, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN BIRD-NESTING GROUPS AS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one modelled as a young man passing eggs from a nest to a young girl gathering them in her dress, a spade propped against a tree-trunk behind them, the other with a boy kneeling in the branches of a tree, passing eggs to a seated young woman, the nozzles supported on the highest branches of the trees, on mound bases (one branch detached, repairs to boy and woman, some branches lacking and with restoration, one with chips below base, various chips to branches and other extremities, drip-pans with damage and restoration), blue crossed swords marks, incised 1153 and 1160, painted numbers 32, circa 1880
9in. (23cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Godden's Guide to European Porcelain, p. 83, pl. 105 for a plate from Litchfield's catalogue, Marks and Monograms on Old China, pub. 1884. Litchfield was a dealer at 28/30, Hanway St., Oxford St., London and this was a mail-order catalogue of Dresden porcelain

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