A Meissen porcelain model of two sheep - image-1

Lot 1379 Dα

A Meissen porcelain model of two sheep

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €

A Meissen porcelain model of two sheep

Smoothed base with former's no. 55. With short firing cracks, chips to one ear, the foliage and one flower. H 6.2 cm.
Around 1740, model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, 1735.

Literature

Cf. Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1959, cat. no. 211, the (white) group from the Residenzmuseum Munich, described in Eberlein's report as "two lambs together, small."