THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION OF LATER DATE, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

A single model of a seated hare in the Scheider Collection, Munich, is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich, Exhibition Catalogue, Munich 1966, pl. 288, no. 1176. It is not certain who created this model, but as Rückert noted, the model form number is 1279, suggesting a date of late 1749. A terminus ante quem is provided by the 1753 inventory of Count Brühl’s Conditorei where 10 of these hares were recorded; see the transcription of this inventory published by Ulrich Pietsch et al., Schwanen service, Dresdener Schloss May to August 2000 Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, 2000, p. 234, where 10 Haasen are listed under Cap. 19. A pair of similar hares were sold by Christie’s, London, on 7 October 1996, lot 456.