Lot 309
309
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PUG DOGS ('GROSSERER MOPS' AND 'MOPSIN MIT JUNGEM')
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF EUGENIE FROMER (LOT 309)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PUG DOGS ('GROSSERER MOPS' AND 'MOPSIN MIT JUNGEM')

CIRCA 1745, THE PORCELAIN WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN PUG DOGS ('GROSSERER MOPS' AND 'MOPSIN MIT JUNGEM')
CIRCA 1745, THE PORCELAIN WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Modeled as either a seated male and female, the female with a suckling puppy, each with a bow-tied belled collar, on a molded foot applied with flowers and foliage, the rocaille bases, the ormolu with red inventory marks, WM in block print and 'C' couronne poincon
7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for June 1944 notes "2 neue Mopss Hunde auf einem Rasen sitzend, angefangen zu poussiren und selbigen die gehörige Action und Gestalt gegeben, welche hernach dem Bildhauer Reinicken vollends fertigen lassen". That for December of the same year includes a description of the female pendant, both models corresponding to the present examples.

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, cat. nos. 1091 and 1092, plate 268, for the examples in the Residenz, Ansbach (the male) and the German National Museum, Nuremberg (the female).

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