Lot 897 D α

A small Meissen porcelain turkey

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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A small Meissen porcelain turkey

Finely painted miniature figure. Smoothed, unmarked base. H 5.6 cm.
Ca. 1750, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Provenance

German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Cf. Kunze-Köllensperger, Alexanders Tiere, vol. VII, Mainz 1999, cat. no. 106.
Cf. Röbbig (ed.), Kabinettstücke. Die Meissener Porzellanvögel von Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Munich 2006, cat. no. 41.

Cf. Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich 2006, cat. no. 316, for the specimen from the Dresden Porcelain Collection.

Cf. Kunze-Köllensperger, Das Holländische Dorf aus Meissener Porzellan. Dessert de Luxe bei Graf von Brühl. Sammlung Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn, Munich 2015, cat. no. 62.