Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Four Meissen Figures of Guinea Fowl, Circa 1741
Lot Closed
October 17, 04:13 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Four Meissen Figures of Guinea Fowl, Circa 1741
modelled by J. J. Kändler, each bird facing to the left, the first two with white speckling and white patches to their backs, the other two with white speckling only, each standing astride a tree stump, three applied with leaves, one with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, the first two with pencilled numbers 12458 and 12459
height 6 1/4 in., 16 cm
Olive, Lady Baillie, Lowndes House, London (dining room), acquired from Maison Jansen, Paris, June 29, 1937;
Sotheby's London, Property from The Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, May 1, 2013, lot 197
The September 1741 entry in Kändler's Taxa records 'Eine Perl Henn in Thon poussirt von mittelmässiger Größe, welche ebens falls Compagnon eine andere Perhenne abgeben soll, damit solche Stüke allzeit gegeneinander sehen' [Modelled in clay a guinea fowl of medium size, which will build the groundwork for another companion so that these pieces will always face each other]. A similar pair are listed and illustrated in Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 198, nos. 1129-30 and p. 201; another is illustrated in Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18 Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1935, pl. XXXIII, no. 136.