MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK OF BASES, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

Compare the lighter colored pair of squirrels on ormolu bases in the Rothschild collection, A. Bount, ed., The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor, Meissen & Other Porcelain, London, 1971, pp. 164-165, no. 56. Other examples were in the Emma Budge Collectoin, Hamberg, sold Berlin, 4-6 October 1937, cat. no. 767, pl. 120 and the René Fribourg Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1963, lot 21.