A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches - image-1
A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches - image-2
A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches - image-1A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches - image-2

Lot 819 Dα

A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 6.930 € (incl. premium)
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A rare pair of Meissen porcelain bullfinches

Naturalistically painted birds perching on treestumps. Smoothed base with crossed swords mark. The foliage and tails restored, the male bird with a filled hole on the underside, a restored chip to his beak, one claw broken off. H 15.2 and 14.7 cm.
Around 1750, models by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1747.

This rare pair of models appear in Kaendler's workshop records in October 1747, which were transcribed by Ulrich Pietsch: "5. a bird called a gable modelled after life in the most natural way as it sits on an branch that has grown naturally. 6. to set a similar bird in a different turn to the former, modelled in the previous way after life".

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1985 from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Illustrated in Röbbig (ed.), Kabinettstücke. Die Meissener Porzellanvögel von Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Munich 2006, cat. no. 40.
S.a. cat. Triumph der blauen Schwerter. Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710 - 1815 1710 - 1815, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, cat. no. 322.