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Two Meissen models of leopards
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Two Meissen models of leopards

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SIDES OF BASES

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Two Meissen models of leopards
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SIDES OF BASES
Seated on their haunches to the left and right with their heads turned, with white chests and pale-brown coats with irregular black patches and spots, each with a forepaw slightly raised, one resting on a coloured rock, one with its jaws open, on oval mound bases applied with foliage and a flower, one with a green wash (one with a restored crack through lower part of body, tail and base, other with chip and minute chipping to underside edge of base, both with restoration to ears)
2¾ in. (7.1 cm.) and 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm.) high (2)
Literature
Guttmann Catalogue, no. 81.
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Lot Essay

A similar pair of leopards were sold in these Rooms on 7th October 1996, lot 421. A pair are illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), nos. 1055 and 1056. Examples from the Emma Budge Collection were sold by Paul Graupe, Berlin, on 27th-29th September 1937, lot 760.

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