CIRCA 1750

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A MEISSEN MODEL OF A SWAN
CIRCA 1750
Modelled to the right in an aggressive pose with its wings outstretched and mouth open, its body and wings with incised plumage, the blue harness about its wings fitted with gilt rings and fastened at its chest with with gilt loops and a tassle, walking astride reeds on a shaped green mound base (rings restored, probably broken through neck and restored, minute chip to tongue, wear to gilding)
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A later version of the same model incorporated in a centrepiece with swans pulling Venus in her chariot is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), no. 252.

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