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.