CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen model of a hen
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled to the left with her head turned, with a swept back plume and red wattles and comb, with incised plumage with grey-brown tips to the wings and to several tail feathers, supported below by rockwork on an oval mound base applied with trailing flowers and foliage (extensive spraying to body, one claw on left foot repaired, restoration to flowers and foliage)
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high

Literature

Guttmann Catalogue, no. 110.

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Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa for December 1742 lists: '1 Hahn und 1 Henne von feiner Grösse welche für die Gräfin Herfort bestellet worden, gehörigermassen zerschnitten und zum abformen gegeben'. A similar example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 1143. For a pair with the cockerel, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel (1956), pl. 9, fig. 17, and the pair sold in these Rooms on 7th October 1996, lot 470, and the pair from the collection of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, sold in these Rooms on 12th March 1947, lot 140.

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