CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF THE BASES, THE MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KÄNDLER

These models are not mentioned in the work reports for Kändler and his workshop of sculptors, and there are no records between 1749 and 1764. A pair of similar models recorded in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the collections of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, are illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1956, pl. 16, fig. 19. Also see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object nos. 1974.356.398-9, for a pair of 'herring gulls' formerly in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection; and a related single 'seagull' model from the Dresdener Schloss is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, no. 91.