Sale 5355
London
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16 March 1995
Price realised
GBP 3,680
Estimate
TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF COCKATOOS after the original models by J. J. Kändler, with white plumage, painted faces and iron-red feathers around their necks, their grey claws gripped tightly on tree-stumps moulded with sprays of flowers (bases with small rim chips), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 125, incised 1778, circa 1890 14¼in. (36.5cm.) high (2)
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Cf. Dr. K. Berling (Ed.), Meissen China, An Illustrated History, Toronto and London, 1972, Table 4, no. 4 for an example of 1734
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