CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK OF BASES

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A pair of Meissen groups of monkeys
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK OF BASES
The first with a male monkey modelled to the right with his head turned and his hands around a tree-trunk, attached to the tree with a gilt porcelain chain from a black band around his waist, the second with a female monkey and her young, holding a white apron of fruit and with a fruit in her extended left hand, seated before a tree-trunk, both on shaped circular mound bases applied with coloured flowers and foliage (the first broken through body, end of base and tree and restored, restoration to hands, tail and chain, the second with two branches lacking from tree, restoration to mother's arms, left hand, apron, and one fruit, some cracks to chest and neck and disguised at chest with restoration, both with chipping and restoration to some flowers)
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) and 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high (2)

Literature

Guttmann Catalogue, no. 91.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar monkeys are ilustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), nos. 167 and 168. Similar examples were sold in these Rooms on 21st June 1965, lot 157; on 20th October 1975, lot 174; on 6th July 1981, lot 188 and on 7th October 1985, lot 188. Another example of the female monkey is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 1062.

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