CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO END OF THE BASE, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A CAPARISONED CAMEL
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO END OF THE BASE, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with a feathered headress and tassled drape moulded with cartouches, on a rocky support and mound base applied with flowers and foliage
9 1⁄4 in. (23.5 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

R.G. Vater Collection no. 574 (paper collection label attached to the underside).

An example of this rare model is illustrated by Dr K. Berling, Königlich Sächsische Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen 1710-1910, Dresden, 1911, pg. 28, table 10, fig. 6 and another is in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (museum no. 1956.61). Another pair in the C.H. Fischer Collection, sold by Lempertz, Cologne, 22-25 October 1906, lots 316 and 317 and illustrated pl. XII (illustration unavailable and unchecked), and a pair were in the Klemperer Collection illustrated by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, 1928, pl. 87, nos. 769 and 770. A single ormolu-mounted version from the René Fribourg Collection, sold by Sotheby's, London, on 25 June 1963, lot 27.

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