A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish - image-1
A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish - image-2
A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish - image-1A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish - image-2

Lot 1083 Dα

A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 15.120 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen white porcelain figure of a heron with a fish

Almost life-size group of animals, originally from the ménagerie of Augustus the Strong. Blue crossed swords mark, model no. 76007, pressnummer 151x. One claw missing. H 61.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, March 1732, produced second half 20th C.

Literature

This model in Wittwer, Die Galerie der Meißener Tiere. Die Menagerie Augusts des Starken für das Japanische Palais in Dresden, Düsseldorf-Munich 2004, p. 338 f.