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Lot 642 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of a billy goat.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 17:00 - Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 35.000 € - 40.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of a billy goat.

Pale grey porcelain with greenish glaze visible in the hollows. A life-sized porcelain model of a recumbent goat with its head inclined to the right. The agitated hairs of the goat's beard accentuated by the fine polychromy. Unmarked. Restorations over firing faults, parts of the tail lost. H 58.5, L ca. 80 cm.
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler before December 1732, the polychromy at least second half 19th C.

Literature

In: Wittwer, Die Galerie der Meißener Tiere, Munich 2004, p. 312 f, illus. 196. The author lists four traceable examples formed between 1732 and 1736, two of which are kept in the Zwinger, the others in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. There is also a subsequent form made by Karl Stein in January 1922.