CIRCA 1738-40

細節

A MEISSEN MONKEY-EWER AND COVER
CIRCA 1738-40
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a female monkey with her young, each with brownish grey coats, incised white chests and throats, pale-pink muzzles, forearms and feet, the mother wearing a gilt-buckled black belt above her hind legs, holding one of her young before her, its head tilted back and mouth open to form the spout, another young monkey forming the handle by clambering on her back, with a similar belt and holding a white fruit disguising the pierced top, the fruit cover with green foliage, on an oval plinth base (spout monkey with minute chipping to ears and mouth, mother with two right toes restored, cover with some restoration to foliage and rim partially ground)
7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high

展覽

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

注意事項

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

拍品專文

A similar example without a cover was sold in these Rooms on 1st June 1992, lot 77 and another, also without a cover, on 30th September 1991, lot 282. Also see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), no. 225, and Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (London, 1971), p. 48 for similar examples.