CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK AT BASE

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A Meissen model of a leaping stag
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK AT BASE
Modelled to the left with its head very slightly turned, with large ochre-tipped seven-point dark-brown antlers and a short tail, with a white chest, its coat with fine red-brown markings and dark-brown markings to its neck, head and tail, leaping forwards over a leafy tree-stump on a shaped rectangular mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (antlers restored replacements, ears and front legs restuck and restored, right-hand end of base broken through and restored, chipping and some restoration to flowers and foliage)
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Literature

Guttmann Catalogue, no. 18.

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Lot Essay

Kändler first modelled this type of leaping stag in 1747, and the 1st October 1753 inventory of Count Brühl's Konditorei lists 4 grosse springende Hirsche. A similar example in Schloss Moritzburg is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), no. 201. A similar example was sold in these Rooms on 6th April 1981, lot 219, and a pair were sold on 30th June 1986, lot 16. Also see K. Berling, Meissen, Commemorative Edition (1911), p. 27, fig 35 for a similar example.

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