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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE 4TH VISCOUNT ALLENDALE, FROM BYWELL HALL, NORTHUMBERLAND (LOTS 116-161)

A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF BEARS

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARK TO THE BACK OF BASES

Details

A PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF BEARS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORD MARK TO THE BACK OF BASES
Naturalistically modelled by J.J. Kändler, seated on mound bases
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa, 1740-48, lists 2 Bären gegeneinander sehend, pro Stück.....3. Thlr., and the 1st October 1753 inventory of Count Brühl's Konditorei lists 6 stehende Bären, 6 gehende Bären. A similar example of the right-hand bear is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), no. 221.

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