LATE 19TH/20 CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, BOTH IMPRESSED 40, INCISED 1073 AND 1063, RESPECTIVELY, AFTER THE MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER

See Chirk Castle, Wrexham, Wales, sale Christie's on the premises, 21 June 2004, lot 322 for a similar 19th century pair and lot 452 for a pair of 18th century examples. Also see, R.J. Charleston, Meissen and Oriental Porcelain, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, 1971, pp. 170-171, no. 59.
Kändler's Taxa for 1744 lists '1 Löwe, mittelmässiger Grösse, liegend mit offenem Rachen, vor Ihre Königl. maj.'