A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF GULLS CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF THE

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF GULLS
CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF THE BASES, THE MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KÄNDLER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF GULLS CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF THE BASES, THE MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KÄNDLER Each naturalistically modeled standing among tall bullrushes, their plumage picked out in brown and black, one with its webbed foot raised 10 ¾ in. (27.2 cm.) and 10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.) high

Provenance
With The Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1984. With Angela Grafin von Wallwitz, London, 1995. With A&J Speelman Ltd., London. Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above on 28 January 1996.

Literature
Apollo, June 1996, p. 14. Antique Porcelain Co. advertisement, Handbook. Grosvenor House, London, 1984. Exhibited TEFAF Maastricht, March 1995. Grosvenor House, London, June 1995. A.& J. Speelman, International Fine Art Fair, New York, 1996. Winter Antiques Show, New York, 1996.

Lot Essay
These models are not mentioned in the work reports for Kändler and his workshop of sculptors, and there are no records between 1749 and 1764. A pair of similar models recorded in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the collections of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, are illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1956, pl. 16, fig. 19. Also see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object nos. 1974.356.398-9, for a pair of 'herring gulls' formerly in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection; and a related single 'seagull' model from the Dresdener Schloss is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, no. 91.

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF GULLS CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO THE BACK OF THE

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