A PAIR OF MEISSEN HEN TEAPOTS AND COVERS (HAHNENHANNE)

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, MODELLED BY J.J. KNDLER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN HEN TEAPOTS AND COVERS (HAHNENHANNE)
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords marks, modelled by J.J. Kndler
One with bright iron-red, blue, purple, green and black plumage enriched in gilt and giltwith Laub-und-Bandelwerk panels on the neck and on either side of the cover emplacement, the cover modelled as a monkey; the other similarly decorated but in a slightly different pose, the cover as a recumbent black dog
6in. (17.1cm) height, overall (2)

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See Rainer Rckert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, nos. 1126, 1127, plate 277 for a similar example.