Lot Essay
These models are not recorded in Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959) or Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966).
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CIRCA 1745, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS GERMAN
Details
A PAIR OF MEISSEN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MODELS OF JAYS
CIRCA 1745, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS GERMAN
Modelled to the left and right with their heads slightly turned, their speckled heads with black and brown patches flanking their beaks, with reddish-brown necks and chests and white throats, their black and white wings each with a blue, black and white striped patch, perched on white oak tree-stumps with foliage and enriched with brown, green and yellow patches, on scrolling foliage shaped circular pierced ormolu bases (left bird with minute over-painting to minute chipping on beak, right bird with very small restored chip to tip of beak and two restored chips to tip of tail, both with slight chipping to extremities of branches, restoration to leaves and slight wear to enamels)
9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.) and 10 in. (25.6 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1745, THE CONTEMPORARY MOUNTS GERMAN
Modelled to the left and right with their heads slightly turned, their speckled heads with black and brown patches flanking their beaks, with reddish-brown necks and chests and white throats, their black and white wings each with a blue, black and white striped patch, perched on white oak tree-stumps with foliage and enriched with brown, green and yellow patches, on scrolling foliage shaped circular pierced ormolu bases (left bird with minute over-painting to minute chipping on beak, right bird with very small restored chip to tip of beak and two restored chips to tip of tail, both with slight chipping to extremities of branches, restoration to leaves and slight wear to enamels)
9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.) and 10 in. (25.6 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anon., sale Weinmüller, Munich, 30th September 1964, lot 207, illustrated pl. 11 (25,000 DM).
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.