CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN GROUPS OF STALLIONS AND GROOMS
CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
The horses modelled to the left and right rearing up on their hind legs, their white coats with pale-brown patches, each with black reins held by standing turbanned grooms, the blackamoor groom in a gilt-edged puce robe and yellow boots, the Turkish groom in a puce-lined pale-yellow tunic, white pantaloons and red shoes, each with daggers tucked into sashes at their waists, with rockwork supports on shaped circular mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (left horse with two minor cracks and tail restuck, right group broken through base with cracks extending through support into horse's underside, Turk's left arm, horses' forelegs and one rear leg ceramic replacements, horses' ears restored, chipping to flowers and foliage and other small damages)
9½ in. (24.3 cm.) and 10½ in. (26.8 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Segal, Basel.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), nos. 245-248. Although Albiker dated these groups to 1765, it is clear from the Longton Hall copies of 1753, and the appearance of similar figures in Lazare Duvaux's journals, that the models were produced in the early 1750s.

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