Lot 111
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF A LION AND LIONESS
A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF A LION AND LIONESS
A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF A LION AND LIONESS
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF A LION AND LIONESS

CIRCA 1741-1745, SMALL BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF A LION AND LIONESS
CIRCA 1741-1745, SMALL BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each modeled with one paw raised, looking up with their jaws open, she with a small cub at her side
6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) long
Provenance
With The Antique Porcelain Company, London, 1962.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, 1976.
The Collection of Laurance S. Rockefeller; Sotheby's, New York, 11-12 October 2005, lot 479.
With Michele Beiny Inc., New York, November 2005.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.

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Lot Essay

Johann Joachim Kändler created models of this type for Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in 1741. Rainer Rückert illustrates a pair of lions in the Schneider Collection, Munich, which are very similar to the present lot and which he dates as circa 1751 due to the model numbers 1564 and 1515 (1), however, current scholarship supports a dating of 1741. Kändler’s work report for February-March 1741 records: Eine Löwin (a lioness)(2), and his Taxa for 1740-1744 records: 1 Löwe, mittelmässiger Grösse, liegend mit offenen Rachen, vor Ihre Konigl. Maj._4. Thlr.- [1 lion, medium size, recumbent with open jaws, for his Royal Majesty, 4 Thalers](3).

1. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 1966, pl. 262, and p. 191, nos. 1058 and 1059.
2. Cited by Ulrich Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig, 2002, p. 86.
3. Cited by Johannes Rafael, ‘Zur “Taxa Kaendler”’ in Keramos 203⁄204, 2009, p. 49, no. 36.

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