A rare Meissen porcelain model of a lioness and cub - image-1
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A rare Meissen porcelain model of a lioness and cub

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 6.500 €
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A rare Meissen porcelain model of a lioness and cub

A naturalistically painted model of a lioness seated on an earth mound base encrusted with flowers and foliage, shielding her cub with her front paw and with her mouth opened in a raw. With faint blue crossed swords mark to the front of the base (?). Restored and later filled firing crack to the underside, minor chips to the flowers and foliage. H 13.1, W 15.5 cm.
Around 1751, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Literature

Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, cat. no. 1058. Cf. a similar model of a seated lioness without cub illus. in cat.: Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich 1997, cat. no. 59.