CIRCA 1745, SMALL BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO SIDE, MODELED BY TO J.J. KÄNDLER

The model of Thrush was commissioned by Queen Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland (1699-1757). Kändler’s work report for April 1745 records: Einen Vogel Corrigiret im Modell nahmentl. ein Wiesen Ziemer ebenfalls Vor Ihro Majt. die Königin [one bird model was corrected, as was a Thrush, for her Majesty the Queen]⁽¹⁾. See Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, Die Autonomen Figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt, Stuttgart, 2023, Vol. 2, p. 200, no. 571, where the model is attributed to both J.J. Kändler and P. Reinicke. For similar models see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, nos. 133 and 134; Gerhard Röbbig, Kabinettstücke, Amira-Palais, Munich, October-November 2008 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2008, pp. 168-169, Kat. Nr. 38, and the pair from the Irwin Untermyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object no. 64.101.11.

1. Cited by Ulrich Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig, 2002, p. 107.