THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1741, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND/OR J.G. EHDER, THE ORMOLU OF A LATER DATE

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A WAXWING
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1741, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND/OR J.G. EHDER, THE ORMOLU OF A LATER DATE
Naturalistically modeled with its head turned, perched on a tree-stump applied with leaves and flowers, on a scrolling foliate base
10 ¾ in. (27.2 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

With Philip Suval, New York, 1950s.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above.

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Lot Essay

For other examples of this model, see the pair formerly in the Irwin Untermeyer collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (object no. 64.101.37), illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1956, pl. 15, fig. 21, as well as the pair at Burghley House, United Kingdom (ref. no. CER0660).

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