A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEAPOTS AND COVERS naturally modelled by J.J. Kändler as a cockerel and a hen with chicks the cockerel's tail-feathers forming the handle and spout, the hen with a chick forming the cover and eight others under her wings, with iron-red combs and wattles and black and brown feather markings (restoration to cockerel's cover, crest and beak, hen's tail feathers, beak and three chick beaks and chick cover, chips to lower beak and feather of cockerel and slight chip to tail feather of hen), the hen with blue crossed swords marks, the cockerel with Pressnummer 15 twice, circa 1740

GERMAN PORCELAIN MEISSEN FIGURES, ANIMALS AND FIGURES

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEAPOTS AND COVERS naturally modelled by J.J. Kändler as a cockerel and a hen with chicks the cockerel's tail-feathers forming the handle and spout, the hen with a chick forming the cover and eight others under her wings, with iron-red combs and wattles and black and brown feather markings (restoration to cockerel's cover, crest and beak, hen's tail feathers, beak and three chick beaks and chick cover, chips to lower beak and feather of cockerel and slight chip to tail feather of hen), the hen with blue crossed swords marks, the cockerel with Pressnummer 15 twice, circa 1740
the cockerel 20.5cm. long
the hen 16cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

Kändler's taxa records in May 1734, '1 Thee Pot in Gestalt einer alten Henne, aber von mittelmäBiger GröBe, welche 9 Junge bei sich hat und solche behütet. Oben auf dem Huhn sitzt ein Junges, welches den Decket zum Mundloch bedeutet. Zum Schnabel der Henne Läuft de Thee raus'. December 1734, ' 1 Theepot in Gestalt einer Henne mit Jungen korrigieret und in neu brauchbaren Zustand gesetzet'. See also Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere, no 152 for the hen

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