Lot 304
304
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PARROT TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA (PAPAGEI)
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF EUGENIE FROMER (LOT 304)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PARROT TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA (PAPAGEI)

CIRCA 1745, THE MODELS BY J.J. KÄNDLER, THE ORMOLU POSSIBLY GERMAN

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PARROT TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA (PAPAGEI)
CIRCA 1745, THE MODELS BY J.J. KÄNDLER, THE ORMOLU POSSIBLY GERMAN
Each with a richly enameled parrot perched on a molded stump applied with foliage, before trellis and tole branches mounted with polychrome porcelain flowers, flanked by two pierced rocaille candle sockets and drip-pans, raised on a pierced scrolling foliate base cast with flower-heads and trellis panels
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
With Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York.

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Lot Essay

This work order for this pair is recorded in October 1741 as "Annoch einen Pappa-goy kleinste Sorte neu pouss. damit auch 2 gegeneinander sehen". For another pair of this model from the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider, Düsseldorf, see R. Rückert, Meissner Porzellan, Munich, 1966, pp. 193 and 267, nos. 1083 and 1084.

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