Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 613. A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Meissen porcelain groups, the porcelain circa 1745, the mounts circa 1775.

A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Meissen porcelain groups, the porcelain circa 1745, the mounts circa 1775

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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 EUR

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A pair of gilt-bronze mounted Meissen porcelain groups, the porcelain circa 1745, the mounts circa 1775


each group similarly modelled by J. J. Kändler as a caparisoned elephant with seated Eastern dignitary and attendant, the mounts cast with rockwork and scrolls 

height 12 1⁄6 in.; width 11¾in.; prof 6⅔in.; 32 cm; 30 cm; 17 cm.


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Paire de groupes en porcelaine et bronze doré, Manufacture de Meissen, la procelaine vers 1745, la monture vers 1775 


d'un modèle de J. J. Kändler

height 12 1⁄6 in.; width 11¾in.; prof 6⅔in.; 32 cm; 30 cm; 17 cm.


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Richard Redding Antiques Ltd., 2014.

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Richard Redding Antiquités Ltd., 2014.

See A. L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 411-412, no. 300 for a version of this model adapted as a clock case. The author discusses the model both in Kaendler's list as Feierabendarbeit - Einen groszen Elephanten in February/March 1741 and in the Livres Journal de Lazare Duvaux which under no. 1007 in January 1752 lists "un éléphant de porcelain de Saxe portant une figure, 210 l."  The author lists numerous examples in Museum and private collections testifying to the popularity of this model.