A Meissen model of a bustard ('Kragentrappe')

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FROM THE ESTATE OF MRS V HENRIQUES, DAUGHTER OF THE HON. MRS NELLIE IONIDES, BUXTED PARK. SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE EXECUTORS

A Meissen model of a bustard ('Kragentrappe')

CIRCA 1735, THE DECORATION PERHAPS LATER

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A Meissen model of a bustard ('Kragentrappe')
CIRCA 1735, THE DECORATION PERHAPS LATER
The gamebird modelled standing supported on a column of reeds, neck erect and beak open, displaying the frill of feathers around its neck, the plumage decorated in pale-grey, dark-grey, shades of brown and black, the reeds in turquoise, metal mount to the base (restoration to beak, restored through frill and through tail, one claw restored, slight damages to reeds)
18 in. (45.8 cm.) high

Provenance

From the Estate of Mrs.V Henriques, Daughter of the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides, Buxted Park. Sold on behalf of the Executors

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

For a similar example, see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere (Berlin, 1959), p. 13, no. 76 and pl. no. 76. In an English translation of the Comte de Buffon's Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles (London, 1798), p. 172, the bustard is described as being 'the largest land-bird that we are familiar with in Europe. They were formerly very numerous in England; but the increased cultivation of the country, the extreme delicacy of their flesh, has greatly thinned the species'.

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