Lot Essay
On 1st October 1753 ten hares were listed in the inventory of Count Brühl's Konditorei. A similar pair of hares were sold in these Rooms on 7th October 1996, lot 456, and a single example was sold on 7th July 1997, lot 367. Also see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 1176 and R.J. Charleston, 'Meissen and other European Porcelain', The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddeston Manor (1971), p. 174, no. 60.