Sale 6925
London
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5 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,988
Estimate
A Meissen model of a red squirrel CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK OF BASE Modelled to the right with his head slightly turned, holding a nut in his paws, a collar about his neck with an attached chain, seated on his haunches on an oval base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to ears, paws and chain, broken through tail and restored, minute chipping to flowers and foliage) 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high
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Literature
Guttmann Catalogue, no. 1.
A pair of similar squirrels were sold in these Rooms on 24th February 1997, lot 292.
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