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Lot 817 Dα

A pair of Meissen porcelain parrots

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 22.680 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of Meissen porcelain parrots

Finely painted middle sized parrots modelled as a facing pair, perching on treestumps. Smoothed bases with faint blue crossed swords mark. Restored chips to one beak, the wing tips and some of the foliage. H 14 cm.
Around 1742, models by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1737 (?) and October 1741.

The two parrots were described in an entry in Kaendler's workshop records in October 1741, transcribed by Ulrich Pietsch: "A new parrot of the middle variety modelled in clay which is looking towards the one already in the warehouse." According to Röbbig, a single example was delivered to Count Heinrich Brühl on 13th July 1737 (Sächs. HStA. Loc. 512,2 Porcelain Waarenlager zu Dresden, 1737, fol. 365v).

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired 1988 at Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Illustrated in Röbbig (ed.), Kabinettstücke. Die Meissener Porzellanvögel von Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Munich 2006, cat. No. 17.
The citation from the work report in Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodeurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 83.