A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BOLOGNESE SPANIEL, CIRCA 1743
modelled by J. J. Kändler, free-standing, modelled seated, scratching under its chin with its hind leg
19cm. high, restoration to right foreleg

Provenance: The Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie; The Count Alcario Palmieri Collection, Christie's London, 28th March 1996, lot 7

The present model was created to form a pair and is recorded in Kändler's Taxa for 1740-1744 as follows: "2. Pologneser oder Zottligte Hunde, gegen einan der sehend auff Camine zu sezen, davon einer sich krazet, der andere aber auffrecht sizet, pro 1. Stück...4. Thlr." [2 Bolognese or shaggy dogs, to set on a chimney looking at each other, one of which scratching itself, the other sitting upright...4. Thlr.]. For a figure similar to the present example, see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, Nos.187/188.