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Lot 1385 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of a bird seller

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 7.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 6.300 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain figure of a bird seller

Standing in a jaunty pose on a plinth encrusted with flowers and foliage, wearing a brown coat and yellow breeches, holding birds in both hands and with two others in a cage hanging from his hip. Finely painted features. Smoothed base with remnants of blue crossed swords mark. The right hand and chips to the flowers and foliage restored. H 21.1 cm.
Around 1745 - 50, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, around 1740.

Literature

Cf. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1956, fig. 82.

Cf. Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich 2006, cat. no. 38, for the specimen in the Dresden Porcelain Collection SKD, inv. no. P.E. 989.