THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION OF LATER DATE, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF EACH BASE, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

In Kändler’s Taxa for 1740-1744 it records: 1. Hund auff einem Rasen sehr dürre, daβ alle Knochen zu sehen, ein Wind-Spiel vorstellend, vor den Herrn von Bilow… 2. Thlr. 8 g.- [1 dog on grass, very emaciated so that all the bones can be seen, depicting a greyhound for Herrn von Bilow. 2 Thalers 8 g]⁽¹⁾. ‘Herrn von Bilow’ refers to Friedrich Gotthard von Bülow (1688-1768), the Saxon minister and diplomat who was Saxony’s ambassador to Prussia at that time. See Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, no. 190 and 191 for two similar models in the Landesmuseum, Schwerin, and Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Alexanders Tiere, Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Berlin, 1999, vol. VII, p. 45 and p. 116, no. 27, for a single model.

1. Cited by Johannes Rafael, ‘Zur “Taxa Kaendler”’ in Keramos 203⁄204, 2009, p. 50, no. 56.