A Meissen porcelain model of a mother and baby monkey
A Meissen porcelain model of a mother and baby monkey
Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base. The tree, two hands and some leaves restored. H 14.6 cm.
Mid-18th C., the model attributed to Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Provenance
Lempertz sale 663, March 23, 1991, lot 163.
North German private collection.
Literature
An identical group ascribed to Kaendler, after 1748, in: Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Hamburg 1982, no. 278.