CIRCA 1900

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A very large Meissen model of a vulture
Circa 1900
(Hockender Königsgeier) after a model by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner with the assistance of Johann Joachim Kaendler for the Japanese Palace (1731), the naturalistically modelled bird with elaborate plumage, perched on a gnarled treetrunk
73cm. high
See illustration

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Lot Essay

Cf. C. Albiker, Meissener Porzellantiere (Berlin 1959), ill.69
These birds are certainly those described in the factory as Kropff Vogel.

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