An extensive Meissen porcelain monkey band
Figures on gilt rocaille bases with elaborately decorated courtly attire using different ground colours.
Consisting of: Conductor with separate music stand, four female singers, an organist sitting on another monkey, a harpist, three flutists with flute, clarinet and bassoon, a drummer, a timpanist and timpani bearer, a bagpipe player, a triangle player, a hurdy-gurdy player, a lute player, a bass player, a violinist, a horn player and a trumpeter. All figures with blue crossed swords marks, incised or impressed model nos., painter's marks in various colours and other incised and impressed marks. The clarinet and right hand of the clarinet player restored (instrument broken off). H conductor 17, H music stand 9 cm.
20th C., the models by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Peter Reinicke, 1753 - 1765.
Literature
Cf. individual 18th C. models in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider (Rückert, Munich 1966, cat. 1064, 1065, 1070, 1071, 1076 etc.), in the Sammlung Ludwig (cat. Glanz des Barock, Bamberg undated, no. 185) and in Sonntag (Keramos 193/2006, p. 8), here illus. the engraved designs by Guélard after drawings by Christophe Huet (1700 - 1759), today still housed in the archive of the Staatlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur in Meissen.
Cf. also detailed descriptions of each figure in cat. Hidden Valuables Early-Period Meissen Porcelain from Swiss Private Collections, Munich-Stuttgart 2020, no. 183 - 195.