CIRCA 1745, BROWN K.H.C. MARKS PERHAPS LATER, BOTH REAR RIGHT FEET WITH TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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Two Meissen models of elephants
Circa 1745, brown K.H.C. marks perhaps later, both rear right feet with traces of blue crossed swords marks
Modelled by P. Reinicke with raised trunks, brown hide markings and pink-lined ears, one with a gilt edged and tasselled pink saddle-cloth with pink and puce foliage, the other with a pale yellow saddle-cloth with puce foliage scrolls (one right front toe chipped)
5½ in. (14 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Saxon Royal Court Confectionery, Dresden

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Lot Essay

In October 1747, Reinicke's notes record 2 Elephanten mit Decken in Thon repariert. Cf. Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere Im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin 1959), pl. 255 for a very similar model carrying figures on its back; and Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (Münich 1979), p. 76, no. 116, for an ormolu-mounted elephant carrying an obelisk on its back in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, which he ascribes to Reinicke and Kändler.

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